Koryu meets Chess

Not Martial Arts but Minerva's Arts. Through a Struggle, be guided by Philosophy, Faith, Art, and Science. Like a Forest from the Olive Tree that Athena, goddess of Wisdom, offered the Greek people a long time ago.

Year: 2025

Oleskyi Castle

POETS IN OLESHKY

There’s no use. Hiding from enemy drones. If the drones watch you. Scurry into your hiding spot.   On or just before Monday. A squad of around. A dozen ‘orcs’ infantry. Marched into a road.   Underpass they’d transformed. Into an underground base. In Oleshky. In southern ‘elves’ Kherson Oblast.   The underpass base. With […]
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POETS AT A CRITICAL MOMENT

The first handful of. Ex-French Dassault Mirage. 2000-5 fighters. Have arrived in Ukraine.     As widely expected. French contractors. Reportedly modified. The supersonic, single-seat jets.   To carry the SCALP-EG. Cruise missiles. France is also providing. To Ukraine.   The jets’ arrival. Expands the ‘elves’ air force’s. Deep strike capability. At a critical moment. […]
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A POET WALKING

An ‘elf’ soldier. Who nearly died. After being injured. In an ‘orcs’ shell attack.   Has travelled to Kent. For treatment. The elves military allowed him. To fly to the UK in January.     He now walks. His eight-year-old daughter. To school. Every morning.     He is now. Living in Kent. With his […]
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A POET MARKED

A British medic. Who lost his leg and arm. In a suspected drone attack. While volunteering in Ukraine.   He feels “lucky”. Despite his injuries. He feels “lucky”. Despite his injuries.     “I have a life here. And if that means. It costs me. An arm and a leg.”   “It costs me. An […]
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POETS PROBING

Two days after. ‘Elves’ mechanized forces. Counterattacked. In ‘Mordor’’s Kursk Oblast.   Taking advantage of. An “operational pause”. By ‘orcs’ and. North Korean troops.   In the oblast. The leading ‘elves’ elements. Are clinging to. New positions.   Around the village. Of Fanaseevka. Three miles east of. Their original lines.     In the third […]
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POETS ONGOING

For the first day. In many weeks. The ‘elves’ salient in Kursk. Has gotten bigger, not smaller.     In August. A strong ‘elves’ force. Eventually numbering. Around 20,000 troops.   Invaded Kursk Oblast. In western ‘Mordor’. Aiming to draw. ‘Orcs’ forces.   Away from the front line. In eastern Ukraine. Away from the front […]
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POETS CONCERNED

Kupyansk. A city with a pre-war population. Of 26,000. In northeastern Ukraine.   Just 25 miles. From the ‘Mordor’’s border. Abuts the Oskil River and. Sits astride critical supply lines.   Including roads. And railroads. Including roads. And railroads.     Now Kupyansk is. Contested again. The ‘orcs’ want it. As they aim to pinch […]
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POETS OVERHEAD

‘Elves’ drones were watching. The whole time. As a lone ‘orcs’ BTR-82. Wheeled fighting vehicle.   Raced across the shell-pocked. No-man’s-land. In broad daylight. Outside Pokrovsk recently.   Firing its autocannon. As it moved. The vehicle succeeded in reaching. The ruins of a building.   The 11 ‘orcs’ infantry packed. Surely didn’t know. The drones […]
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POETS AT POINT-BLANK RANGE

Not every ‘orcs’. Assault group. Not every ‘orcs’. Assault group.   Comes to grief. At the receiving end of. An ‘elves’ tank firing. From 100 feet away.     Ten months after. First attacking Chasiv Yar. A fortress town. In eastern Ukraine.   ‘Orcs’ troops have finally. Managed to advance. —at times, only briefly— Into […]
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POETS LURING

Feigning defeat. And retreat. Soldiers from the ‘elves’ army’s. 225th Assault Battalion lured.   A large ‘orcs’ force. Into a trap. In western ‘Mordor’’s Kursk Oblast. On or just before Thursday.     As the overconfident ‘orcs’. Surged forward into. A treeline just outside. The village of Sverdlikovo.   Possibly believing. They were finally about […]