The Trials of a Knight - Apr 2
...I’m called to meet a challenge, everyday:
my manner meek, my slow approach quite tame,
I timidly attack the threshold frame
that guards the gate and keeps the weak at bay.
My mind my sword, my ...
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Categories:
assailable, adventure, anxiety, courage, humorous,
Form: Italian Sonnet
Song for Jayla
...Song for Jayla and all little girls who's dreams are broken.
Only ten is she,
Assailable as a child can be.
Her mind will drift with worry,
There's a tear in her eyes
Her dreams are not enco...
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Categories:
assailable, betrayal, courage, inspirational,
Form: Ballade
Stains of Imperfection: Flower and Man
...This was not written for or entered in a contest, but I was inspired.
~~~ "We are all petals of imperfection sharing the same sun"
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Categories:
assailable, flower, introspection, people,
Form: Rhyme
Unassailable Purity
...Music and romance are camarilla comrades,
just like poems are my shield and arrows.
But not all lullabies of lovers,
harmonise like a street choir of angels.
If love resembles the weather,
then ...
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Categories:
assailable, analogy, emotions, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Tears On a Page
...Only ten is she.
Assailable as a child can be.
Her mind drifts, worry at best, fear at worst.
Her ally is her art that expresses it so vividly.
The face that she wears on the page,
a tear drop...
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Categories:
assailable, child abuse, conflict,
Form: Free verse
Tough Times
...When the mountain looked insurmountable
Your uncompromising stance made it assailable
When situations looked so scary and bleak
Your raw determination hauled us towards the peak
When the road...
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Categories:
assailable, allusion, character, devotion, endurance,
Form: Rhyme
Heaven's Gate
...within every assailable heart-his glory dwells
Heavenly Monoku Contest
Sponsored by Kim Rodrigues
01/27/2019...
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Categories:
assailable, heaven, spiritual,
Form: Monoku
Memories
...I recollect we would,encircling a fire,congregate
Brew tea and pregnant stories of ancient time narrate
My grandpa would hours during nonstop preach
The inestimable merits of Dawn prayer and teach...
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Categories:
assailable, family,
Form: Free verse
The Leeward Side
...There is a moment when the senses fade
their beating on the walls of personhood.
It is the moment when the test begins,
the probe into the secret places of the earth,
the waiting places on the leewa...
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Categories:
assailable, happiness, places,
Form: Free verse