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First Principles: Life Is A Kind of Chess, In Which We Have Often Points To Gain, and Competitors or Adversaries To Contend With
“Life is a kind of Chess, in which we have often points to gain, and competitors or adversaries to contend with, and in which there is a vast variety of good and ill events, that are, in some degree, the … Continue reading
Posted in First Principles
Tagged Action, Adversaries, Benjamin Franklin, Caution, Chess, Circumpection, Competitors, Consequences, Contend, First Principles, Foresight, Gain, Life, Points, Prudence, The Morals of Chess
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A Republic To Be Kept
A Republic To Be Keptby Michael DoyleStart then as it were with a nameWhat we will call out as informationThen like chess parts to the gameWe provide definition in affirmationWhat does this take in its inflectionTo voice what it is … Continue reading
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Tagged Absolute, Achieve, Affirmation, Believe, Blemishes, Chess, Coal, Consequences, Conspiracy, Constitution, Convention, Deception, Definition, Deform, Diamond, Disputation, Divine Geometry, Explanation, Feemen, Forced Hands, Fuzzy, Generation After Generation, Gilded Cage, Glimpse, Inflection, Information, Justice, Kept, Knowledge, Law, Lies, Mercy, Name, Nation, Object, Page, Peace, Plato, Poetry and Poems, Power Corrupts, Price, Prosperity, Reality, Reflection, Republic, Reputation, Rule of Law, See, Signed Name, Slaves, Spirit, Start, Surprise, Tempered, Truth, Tyrant, Voice, Winter, Wisdom
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Wishing The Maybe
Do you ever have moments where you stop and pause and think on things like maybe things might have been different or maybe this or that? I do. Those are the moments to be quiet and listen in. Trying to … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Balance, Borrow, Bought, Chess, City, Compassion, Consider, Could, Deliberate, Dragon, Eye, Family, Fool, Gift, God, Good, Hesitate, Hiding Seek, Late Night, Let It Be, Lines, Maybe, Moment, Morality Play, Nothing, Outcast, Photograph, Pity, Plain View, Pleasure, Poem, Poetry, Relive, Remembrance, Rule, Sky, Sleep, Society, Sought, Think, Throwaway, Tomorrow, Travesty, Treasure, Truth, Wish, Yesterday
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WordPress #Daily Prompt – Gate
Gates of Memory – Strategy Gone Wrong At the gates of memory, we remember the good times. But sometimes, we also dwell longer than we should on moments when our best laid strategies go awry. There was this time when … Continue reading
Posted in Photographs & Memories, Uncategorized
Tagged Chess, Daily Prompt, Gate, Memory, Strategy, Wordpress
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 