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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; 
~

Copyright © Amitabh Divakar




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