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Nos Ferrato: We, the Ironclad

Ashes in lashes,
Dust becomes rust

Enter this Temple,
in You I trust

Three stones at the altar
Five moors to the creek
Seven days for hunting
Nine chains that peak

Ironclad crosses
the blood that seeps,
red through this armour,
wounds what weeps

Sweep, bright bunting,
sweep, now sweep. . .

The Clouds cry, a-wanting
the belfries be steep.

Bring lilies to my chamber,
rest roses at my feet.
Milk for the thistle,
blue moon for the heath.

Sweet are the meadows,
Don Ironclad sheath
Chained to Her crown,
The Dag Dei will breathe

But I hold the Sun
when You call out my name 
I feel Your kisses 
in the warm spring rain

Enter this Temple, 
enter it full,
From the grove, the forest --
my Lord, my Rule



07 January 2013 (11 January 2013)

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  1. Date: 1/11/2013 11:06:00 PM

    Wot can I say about this poem that I haven't already mentioned to you? The structure, rhyme and flow is absolutely stunning. This is an example of metrical, rhyming free verse at its best....the very definition of free verse: form that transcends the boundaries of other strict forms; but creates its own form. Yeah, this is disciplined free verse which incorporates a lot of poetic devices. Rhymers who are anti-free verse, or supposed free versers who actually write gobbly-gook prose, could learn a lesson here :D The first time I read this poem, I was very impressed. I love it -- an instant favourite of mine!