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.

Archive List for AS A POET

POETS MANOEUVRING

“A launch has been detected. Manoeuvre!” The order of the ‘elves’ ground team. Is clear.    An ‘orcs’ Su-35 fighter jet has fired. A missile at his aircraft. He knows he has to abort. The mission in order to survive.   He quickly dives his MiG-29. So low that he can see the treetops. The […]

POETS INSEPARABLE

He had been fighting. For 200 hours without a break. When he was killed by an ‘orc’ sniper. In the city of Bakhmut.   “For eight days. He did not eat, or sleep. He couldn’t even close his eyes for five minutes. Because the sniper could shoot.”   There’s a reason why. She now calls […]

A POET IN 8 SECONDS

What is alive in the sky? What is dead in the air? You are keeping your eyes on Bakhmut. You need 8 seconds to see Bakhmut.   What is sound in the earth? What is silent in the mud? You are keeping your eyes on Bakhmut. You need 8 seconds to see Bakhmut.   What […]

A POET ENSURING

Suffering from shell-shock. And with one arm bandaged. He was the only soldier. Still able to fight.   The 37-year-old fired. At the waves of ‘orcs’ soldiers. He was the only soldier. Still able to fight.   ‘Orcs’ tried to storm his position. They didn’t even try to take cover. But simply walked towards him. […]

POETS JOKING TOGETHER

“We have a joke,” he said. “‘The One’ will be made. A hero of Ukraine. For the job he’s done.”   “To unite Ukraine. To build our economy. To build our army. And to make the ‘elves’ nation great.”   Another laughed, “But yeah. The war is horrible. But it’s like the price. For our […]

POETS IN VELYKA NOVOSILKA

The line of trees appears to fragment. And disappear as it winds its way towards. The ‘orcs’ positions on the outskirts of. The small town of Velyka Novosilka.   On this front line. ‘Orcs’ eyes are always watching. Waiting for. An opportunity to attack.     An ‘elf’ army infantryman. With the 1st Separate Tank […]

POETS ORDERED TO LEAVE

Ukraine has ordered. Some residents to leave Kupiansk. As ‘Mordor’ seeks to re-take the city. It left last year.   Kharkiv’s regional authorities said. Families with children and people. “With limited mobility” must leave due to. “Constant” shelling by ‘orcs’ forces.   ‘Mordor’ seized the north-eastern city. Early in the full-scale invasion. With Ukraine recapturing […]

A POET RETURNING

On a bitterly cold Kyiv morning. The sight of him jogging with his friends. Is a moving one of. A return to a fuller life.   In May last year. He was lying. In a hospital bed. With a broken pelvis and jaw.   He was injured. While defending. The south-eastern city of Mariupol. Early […]

A POET DREAMING

It was in early September last year. During Ukraine’s grinding counter-offensive. In the southern Kherson region. That his war ended abruptly.   The soldier’s tank drove. Over a mine as it headed into combat. When the 30-year-old regained consciousness. He was surrounded by fire.   “You are not thinking about. What you need to do. […]

A POET PRAYING

I can only pray all the time. I can only pray all the time. My son and his team are in Bakhmut now. I cannot sleep.   I can only pray all the time. I can only pray all the time. My son and his team are in Bakhmut now. I cannot work.   I […]