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Best Courtly Poems


Courtly Love
Submissive squire on his foot 
Helping his best knight, to put
On the weapons o’ not so cute 

Beautified horses galloping,
The sharpen swords clanging, 
And wooden poles jousting,

While this beauty, mocks by tear,
Huddling, silently, in her own fear
Because of her one and only dear

For her love,
She...

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Categories: courtly, history, life, love, people,
Form: Narrative
Courtly Love Ii
I saw you today
the sun swirled around your beauty
and I envied it's chance to dance with you
in a glorious eddy of entanglement
I wanted to speak to you of love
but time and space seemed to always block my way
and others always seemed
to be there to build...

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Categories: courtly, lost love, love, passion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Heart Shape Love Is Courtly-Love Is Us
Love Is   courtly 
                            boundless, warm,  fervent
        ...

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Categories: courtly, analogy, heart, imagery, love,
Form: Shape

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



The Courtly Ghost
A spirit came on a moonlit night
To seek a maid to be his wife,
And there he saw her passing fair
As she was going up the stair.

“Pardon, Miss, I’d like a kiss,
Please turn your eyes to me; 
For you look sweet and we could sleep
Through all...

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© Jean Bush  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: courtly, dark, death, evil, gothic,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Villanelle: Hide Not Behind Caste Nor Bought Courtly Name
 Villanelle : Hide not behind caste nor bought courtly name

[He who fears to affix his name to his face or words has something to hide unless the State is after him/her out of fear...]


Hide not behind caste nor bought courtly name
If no tyrant nor...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: courtly, courage, fear, psychological, words,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry