January Workout

As usual over Christmas
the chessmen put on weight.
As ever in the new year
they hold the same debate:

Is jogging best or press-ups
or try a brand new sport?
"Swimming," says one bishop,
"is healthy, so we're taught."

The pawns are playing skittles
with all the fun that brings,
while shuttlecock and battledore's
the favourite of the kings.

One rook is good at headstands,
but the queens look on and laugh:
"The quickest way to shed the pounds?
Cut calories by half!"

poem © Celia Warren 2014

This is the latest adventure of the chessmen. (You can see the previous one here.)

So, it's twelfth night, the decorations are down, and now I can discard the cracker toys (!) Still horribly wild, wet and windy. Brrr! Glad to be indoors and playing with the chessmen.