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Yesterday I saw a rainbow

By Tom Brown on Mon, 01 Jan 2018

Hoping and waiting so terribly long looking searching for ten years there were only occasional glimpses very occasional small fragments. At last, and...

Nature

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∫ii Legal games

By Tom Brown on Thu, 21 Dec 2017

How many legal games of Chess are there? Certainly there is a set consisting of all legal games and a possible position is one that can be reached...

Philosophy

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∫i First moves

By Tom Brown on Fri, 15 Dec 2017

The perfect game in Chess would be that of the best first move answered by the best move, replied again by best and then the best once more. The age...

Philosophy

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Love & Chess

By Tom Brown on Sun, 26 Nov 2017

Chess is the ultimate board game but one could easily overdo it. Especially youngsters because the ambition always is to be the best, to be world...

Autobiography

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wine

Posted on Sat, 15 Dec 2018

Indeed. Drunkenness and anger speak truthfully -Old African proverb

Posted in In Vino Veritas

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I didn't know of this jelly

Posted on Mon, 26 Nov 2018

I didn't know of this little jelly blob thing 'till I got blind in one eye for about 2 minutes at work, so later I went to see a doctor he looked he said it's fine the same story as yours. He's got machines and stuff. It happens to everybody they...

Posted in Vitreous Humourless

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Sala kahle!

Posted on Sat, 10 Nov 2018

“Sala kahle” is a Zulu greeting for goodbye. It says “stay well”. For “go well” the greeting is “hamba kahle!”

I gave an attempted phonetic English spelling. I am learning isiZulu it's going slowly but steadily. I find it very difficult....

Posted in In That Moment

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Sounds good!

Posted on Thu, 15 Nov 2018

Sounds good! We don't ever get snow here in South-Africa. Never. Most of us haven't even ever seen snow. Only when it's terribly cold sometimes it snows on the mountains. The Cape mountains and the Drakensberg. There in the northern hemishere is...

Posted in LET THE SEASONS

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It sounds like a fairy tale

Posted on Tue, 13 Nov 2018

It sounds like a fairy tale. It's good to hear of a success story but there must be a lot give-and-take. Not all moonshine and roses hey!? Do you have other kids Richard?

Keep well! Tom Brown

Posted in IT WAS A NIGHT

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Two men look through

Posted on Sat, 03 Nov 2018

Two men look through the same bars, the one sees the mud, the other the stars.

Posted in WHAT I SEE

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I know how it feels-

Posted on Wed, 24 Oct 2018

I know how it feels-

Posted in Weep Till Forever

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Excellent!

Posted on Thu, 25 Oct 2018

Excellent! Enjoyed! Your poem reminds me of Narnia of the scene with Lucy with the falling leaves in Prince Caspian. A sense of wonder.

Posted in An Autumn of Leaves

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Just beautiful

Posted on Thu, 18 Oct 2018

Just beautiful. To me yellow is faithfulness, gold is noble and eternal. Your others could be, the colour blue serenity and peace perhaps, and red would be love.

Good! Tom Brown

Posted in Colours

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A beautiful little poem, sometimes I wish I had

Posted on Wed, 17 Oct 2018

A beautiful little poem, sometimes I wish I had children especially small children steal one's heart. Do you have? In the end thrown into the world they too must make their own way, fight their own fights, take their own chances. Without choice...