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Tilting At Windmills
The grinding millstone
The chaff invested air
The lone miller bow's in prayer
Seemingly lost in the chaos
The code of honour
Looking through the opaque
The lone miller, is he sage
Or lost in the modern age
Tilting at windmills
Is he a quixotic man
Doubtful it was a plan
His prayer said
Now he mixes
Rye,...

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Categories: tilting at windmills, christian,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Vignette-Tilting At Windmills
He set his classic in La Mancha
Don Quxiote and sidekick Panza
This duet made an awful fist
Ready material for a satorist-
Sancho the squire,Don the idealist

see more in the renown tale by Cervantes...

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Categories: tilting at windmills, on writing and words,
Form: Narrative
Birds Tilting At Windmills
Multi-coloured whirlygigs
and dangling dvd mobiles
have a playful role
protecting my potted
young Blueberry bushes
from hungry for worm birds
digging up the plants
I might even add a baby monitor
making the sculpture
complete....

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Categories: tilting at windmills, nature,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Premium Member Tilting at Windmills
("Dark Pool Nebula #3", 2011, original oil)

Tilting at Windmills

In this modern world, in these modern times
adventurers of the spirit are looked down upon
at least among my family and friends.

It’s all good if kept at a distance,
but too up close and personal
and it quickly becomes uncomfortable.

This...

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Categories: tilting at windmills, adventure, art, introspection, life,
Form: Narrative

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry