Category: chess

Effort or Toil

by edgarone2, posted in art, birds, chess, life, life and art, photos, poetry 
A monk asks: What is toil? What is effort?
Writing is effort, a struggle what fits.
What has meaning?
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It is hard to be sad at springtime.
Sadness strikes like a lightning
Asks no permission.
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Sometimes I understimate light
I overstep on the shadows
I have to start the matrices again
Mistakes are done with pleasure
Neither with sadness
Just remeasuring with more attention.
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I can go and fly the kite or go fishing.
There is no forecast of rain.

note: It is springtime. I'm more distracted these days. I watching the FIDE Chess Candidates Tournament
going on in Toronto, Canada. Strated on April 3, 2024.

Dawn

by edgarone2, posted in blog, chess, life, life and art, poetry

What is after all 

one chess game lost

kings, queens, knights roaming

bishops blessing 64 squares

after the 6th hour of play

though night is deepening

tired, vision blurred, distracted

there is another day

hours and hours of preparation

dawn will come 

another game.

note: I’m sorry I have not written any new poems. I have been watching on-line Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2022 being held in the Netherlands.I have to get up before 5 in the morning. The games start at 5.

Books I’m reading: I have been re-reading Lord of the Rings.