Photo: alleghenycampus.com: human chess.
“Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another.” Marcel Duchamp
Knight takes bishop,
queen takes knight,
pawn takes pawn and
blocks the rook,
on and on
and so it goes,
tit for tat
soon everything falls,
is nothing learned,
is no one heard?
It’s not the winning
or a surrender,
surely,
and I hope,
it is letting all things be.
©Paul Vincent Cannon
Paul, pvcann.com
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Maybe if we stopped thinking of life as a game, we’d be able to address needs and losses.
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Yes!
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Absolutely Liz
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O yes indeed VJ, yes indeed.
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Learn — wha’, now? 🤣
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Well I always have been hopeful 🙂
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You know, I always call it that too — never delusional, like all my friends seem to call it… 😅
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🤣
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Well said
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Thank you
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Pieces move, strategy used, some captured, some advance, some sacrificed others reach their goal. give, take, surrender, forfeit, win, lose, capture, block, castle, king or queen side protect. Is it a game? Or simply life? I enjoy reading a and following a chess match up. For me an enjoyable story unfolds. Sometimes there is a tie.
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Yes, sometimes there is a tie 🙂
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Love, Respect “and letting all things be” …. absolutely!
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Thanks for the thoughtful response, yes indeed.
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Sadly, some people seem to never learn.
Excellent poem, Paul.
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Many thanks indeed, yes, sadly so.
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Very well said, Paul!
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Many thanks Amy
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