Best Noblesse Poems

The old King took to the battle
and leapt into the fencers fray.
“Noblesse oblige” his cronies cry.
“Our King will save the day!”

He was a bull to their gazelle
nae a fair fight, nae by half;
he'd fight just to see the thralls fall
he ‘d pierce those peacocks for...

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Bated young as if moth,
our rushlight engrossing as inferno,
to minds untaught of hell.

As hell itself to learned folk,
cursed with mystic beginnings,
drowned deep within their well.

Before the airy days of care,
can gently ease them in,
to the world as sheer as veil.

We bury deep insecurities,
in soil that...

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The King
The king was quite old, but not senile,
And his problems with sex were not penile.
He could rut with the best,
When put to the test,
And got plenty of rest in between while.

The Queen
The queen wanted Sir Bruce for her lover,
But said knight had his sights...

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Painstaking plumes of surest gait
To wield diamond steel over fate;
With slow pair of wit-guarded lips,
As otiose words sway great ships. 

Invincible flair and exacting knack
To stand out from the frothy pack;
Ochred with all blue-penciled skill,
For nabob’s dimwits do mimic still. 

With the far-scanning aquiline eye
That...

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the hues are washed
and lifted off the canvas
free the frail and delicate
gentle silky petals
caressed with spring's appeal

only pure magnolia
can offer such magnificence
beyond a stream of opulence



AP: Honorable Mention 2025

Posted on March 30, 2025...

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