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Game of Fate

Every week a card is played, four suits as seasons tell; seers seeking signs and omens for soldiers gambling their lives. Summer hearts bleed for a king’s ideology, red queens of winter and blood diamonds. Spring spades digging trenches and graves of war for infantry boys, bearing black clubs, lances and rifles as they fall. causality cuts lines in fate, making kings and commoners equal in the games of war they partake; All play with the hand they’re dealt, only some see the deck shuffled again.

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Date: 2/27/2018 2:01:00 PM
Delightful extended metaphor, Kyrill! It has all the elements of a winning sonnet: Imagery, eloquence of language, and a killer final two lines. (O.K. So, the final couplet doesn't rhyme, and it's not "officially" a 'sonnet.' I think it's terrific.) Haven't seen any poems from you for a week...Am looking forward to more. :) Gershon
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Kyrill Sazonov
Date: 2/28/2018 12:21:00 AM
Thank you so much for the kind words! I'm currently abroad for a couple weeks, but i'll be sure to add some as soon as i return!

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