Best Gallants Poems

Tall trees
on each side of
the deep wood's shadowed path
guide me out. . . my gallant
escorts.


Submitted Oct. 7, 2022
for Line Gauthier's Bitesize Poem No.53 Poetry Contest...

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When you're topside in the gallants
and you're lookin' up at waves,
the wind's ascreemin' madness
intent on many graves.
The mate has said: "Lay aloft!",
and Third was on...

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Feet in flowing stream...
Torn, wearily strolling by:
Yesterday's gallants....

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Limerick : Once a Senorita from Sevilla – 5	

Once a Senorita from Sevilla 
Learned Flamenco to strut at Feria
Eyes flashed to kill gallants
Bitten by red...

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A Beautiful Sailing Ship


Great white sheets spread before Auster's wind seem to fly.
She sails ocean rout's course coming from East Indies.
My eyes take in ship's...

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THE PALMS
As dawn child brings a new illumination
Among the palms are hints of gentle motion
Their fronds now stir in elegant activation
Like ladies with refinement: a...

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1.Can love be constrained?
lover’s tears reveal.	
2.Love-less live selfish but
loving men generous.
3.Fruit of body and
soul is love.
4.Love sprouts longing which
metamorphoses lovely friendship
5.Ecstasy of kind-hearted is
reward of...

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My plethora of emotions rustling at brim
wishing you to seize and soar
dreams full of your exquisite image
and nights desiring your embrace
riveting my tempt again and...

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To be upon the sea again
And feel waves spray wetting my face
The rolling deck its  pitching then
far sight of land without a trace

Make fast...

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Turn on the night
 Let the light shine in,
The zeal of the hour
	Beholds the time from within.

Usher me the epic dawn, sublime…
	And the euphoric mortality,
Power...

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I'm coming back to you, Sooling. I'm on my way.
Hear the sheets flapping in the gallants and royals.
The spray is wet upon my cheeks and...

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Billowing white
A tall masted ship
Gleaming wet
Sped on
In to a setting sun
 
Mizzen and top gallants flying
Such golden light
Fell upon a ship
That sped on 
In to...

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O my heart, my heart is there tonight
Where hibiscus at the fence side flower the light
Of stars in Verletta's eyes, O I'd write
Her poems if...

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Guilty by birth,
A citizen by a vote
A right that took centuries for women to exercise
A narrative that still paints societies

In two opposing colors
With tension simmering...

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Pearls of the orient 
Where the gallants dwell 
Like the jewels of the ancient 
Their luster casts a spell 

As precious as gem 
Countless men...

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