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A Chequered Game

A Game Chequered ! Verbose; Pawned divinity Words are pieces Phrases are moves Players' wordsmiths Egos crowned kings Drawn out are words Empty stands sheath Reveal your Chess Strategy-Tactics Grand master Mikhail Tal speak On checker board strategies. "The deep desires Of a chess player To lead opponent Into deep Forest Dark And The Path As Way out Narrow enough For only one to fit. Quintessential paradox Of battle games with words Insiders from their prison cages Re-arrange pieces in endless loop Noisy minds trapped in eerie silence Tactics is knowing- What's done when there’s something to do Strategist is busy - In making, in contemplating counter moves The gamer: the cold calculative mover, brutal in purpose, moves words, forward and backward The gamer knows; the words shall be rearranged Checkered boards of Chaotic; Noisy; Wordy; Game. The sale Buy one Get Two The-Chessmatic mover The-Charismatic Baiter Squarer of self and ego the believer;the knower Biting bytes; Now is No In -A never ending loop The Self But One Not Two Settled-flow-words when soaked in love Entrenched-in- compassion all powerful Wherein in-mated in thoughts and deed To, Checkmate the words-as-bait- is tactics Know, The web of words is A dense wild forest; It is A habitat of 'Mind's wild wanderings. . The gamer; moves words; fore backward In another brutal checkered board game; ~

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