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Tag Archives: winning
Virtuosity
Is the solution so simple and black and white that you can tweet it? Weighing in with your two cents isn’t risking your money. Is the right answer pitting our us against them in a blind fool’s game? No one … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged battle, dualism, Japanese verse forms, pointlessness, social media, talking heads, waka, winning
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Does Somebody Win?
Doesn’t seem to make much sense at all; win or lose don’t matter in the end. It’s a race that seems too close to call; finish line’s just up around the bend. Doesn’t seem to change much day to day; … Continue reading
Posted in Songs
Tagged competition, cycles, illusion, imagination, losing, pointlessness, winning
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Win or Lose: Sicilian septet
So often, when it comes to win or lose (or what we each define as either one) the pathways offered that we tend to choose reflect the adage “ends as it’s begun”. Could be the reason why we sing the … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged #BookofForms, blues, losing, poetic forms, septet, Sicilian verse forms, winning
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In Between: séadna
Perhaps there is no in between; it’s either pitch black or light. You inch forward or slip backwards, fight each turn of day to night imagining in fierce battle you will lose your coward’s mask. Believing in some great reward, … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged #BookofForms, battle, black and white, fighting, gray, illusion, Irish verse forms, poetic forms, séadna, winning
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Thought for the Day
Grantland Rice (1880-1954) was a sportswriter for the New York Herald-Tribune. He was really one of the first, if not the first, famous sportscasters, immortalizing Knute Rockne’s Notre Dame squad as the “Four Horsemen” of the apocalypse, among other things, … Continue reading
Posted in Statements
Tagged achievement, balance, Grantland Rice, sportsmanship, success, winning
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