Clocking It Poem by Tom Billsborough
Clocking It
Watched clocks always toil.
Moving clocks are often slow
Clocking moves means Chess.
Ha! Love that verb- - TOIL. It kicked that image to life with a vengeance! ! ! And a clever writer knows this very well, doesn't he? ? You make me think of watching my brother and my Father playing chess- -when you're not playing, the game is the most deadening agonizing stretch of time... however, playing a game of chess against my Father was a blood-bath, the only good thing about it being that death usually only took four or five moves... Thank you for a charming senryu and a trip down memory lane
A great game for curing insomnia. I watched one of my brother's County matches and actually stayed awake for twenty minutes. Now that really was Toil. My idea for playing chess was your bloodbath approach. Charge of the Light Brigade Stuff. Of course my brother built up his defence and waited for the first blunder on my part! Mind you, I could kick him off the field at Soccer, so there! His fancy Sicilian Defence didn't help him there. Anyway I though Sicilian defence was something the Mafia used!
oi your getting good at this Tom, then why would I think anything else; lol Anna
I know a little about Chess clocks having watched my brother for 20 minutes in an International Chess Match. My, was it exciting! Answers on a post card please!
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5/3/2024 1:06:03 PM # 1.0.0.1119
I know what you mean about bloodbath. My style was rather like the Charge of the Light brigade. It worked against average players but not against my brother who has represented three different counties and played in International tournaments. He'd just lie in waiting shoring up his defence, waiting for the first rash mistake on my part! my excuse is that I'm too impatient for the game! Once watched a county match. Great cure for insomnia. Talk about life in slow motion! Maybe one day I'll mug up on the Sicilian Defence and surprise him. Or is the Sicilian defence something to do with the Mafia!