GENESIS

Bishop, Tower, Horse and Falcon arise
Whole cloth from Wind and Water, Earth and Fire
Dually, Queen and King, Caissa's assize
Ten pawns, duly comprised ten files require
World not made in one day, taketh seven --
Odd seven-piece-weaved fabric makes Chess even.

(Note: The lines read in any order,
with 6! (=720) combinations, rather permutations.
Each line alternately goes backwards too:
(12 x 11 x 10 x 9 x 8 x 7) = 665,280 recitations,
on the order of orthodox chess games database.)

Mercury the Bishop, Venus the Queen
Mars Knight, Saturn Rook, Jupiter the King--
Caissa's seeming motions like as orbits seen,
The playing field on Earth, each trailing ring
About Sol shapes Sun Falcon's hidden paths,
Bodies streaming equal timed and spaced swaths.

-- George William Duke 2001

• Falcon Chess.
• "A CHESS MORALITY: Castle Early". Another poem on Falcon chess.
• Chess Morality II: Revelation. A third poem on Falcom chess.
• Chess Morality III: Caissa's Comet. 4th poem.