It's the Holy Grail

. . . or maybe 
the esotericism of 
whatever 
passes for 
academic 
discourse 
in these later 
days of no 
Latin no Greek   
no rollick in 
the original 
tongues of bards 
who in facing 
the Moors had 
strummed of 
delayed lust 
for ladies 
a-waiting 
in their foggy 
homelands 
pining away 
from unassailable 
baconies far up 
on cold stone 
battlements 
yet holding 
the dream 
aloft .
Copyright © | Year Posted 2005

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March 28, 2016 at 10:07 PM
John Birkbeck, awesome free verse poem. LINDA
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