PAINTBRUSH
...PAINTBRUSH
Fingertips the bristles of a
pagan paintbrush
painting a Tree of Life
on pacified cheekbones
instead of in liver
from whence it sprung
now it burns to feed
HeartSpace with wi...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
chivalric, allegory, art, body, color,
Form: Alliteration
Neurodeus Dophamine
...Enthroned Qeis-Layla lay under God,
Propheted a mania in madness blood.
The spark of a padma has not died,
A sorrow Hansel-Gretel lacrimated.
A just far away lady likeness,
Adore God for the...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
chivalric, for teens, romantic,
Form: Masnavi
The Sky Cracked Open
...
"The Sky Cracked Open"
One day
the Sky cracked open
the yolk of life
shined through
Splinters shifted
blooded angel quills
flew amongst ...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
chivalric, dark, fate, i am,
Form: Free verse
Speaker, Subject, and Theme In Edna St Vincent Millay's ''Women Have Loved Before As I Love Now''
...“Women Have Loved Before As I Love Now”
by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Women have loved before as I love now;
At least, in lively chronicles of the past-
Of Irish waters by a Cornish prow
Or Troja...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
chivalric, betrayal, desire, literature, love,
Form: Prose
The Final Letter
...You would have heard people say, "Boys don't cry".
But I would advise you do cry when your emotions are at high
But always remember one advice from your father's side.
Which you should always kee...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
chivalric, relationship, women,
Form: Rhyme Royal
Finding Life In Failure's Cup
...What lessons do we really learn in our success,
When, after all, we won it, oh, so brightly
No need to look for luck in victory’s excess
That might deflate our egos even slightly…
Although to t...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
chivalric, life,
Form: Rhyme
Natural Instinct
...Three Sonnets tell a story, in sequence.
[From the narrative poem, "Don't Go to Wyoming Alone"]
I. Natural Instinct (Chivalric Sonnet)
He saves a wad of cash and designates
the stas...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
chivalric, africa, farm, flying, travel,
Form: Sonnet
The Moon King
...Poor little Moon King
trapped inside a gilded cage
within the marble prison walls
the cage is painted
and the marble held up with balsa wood
a fake fairy-tale façade
castles in the clouds
ladies in c...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
chivalric, lonely, lost love, sad,
Form: Free verse
War Memorial: Youthful Eyes, Elder's Vision
...Young generation ardor from sculpted hero borrows
Older generation, torpor to graft peaceful tomorrows
Can young eyes through steely sheath glimpse marrow
O'er from dried paint, the blood stains tha...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
chivalric, age, angst, career, ,
Form: Rhyme
Saint George and the Dragon
...
When I spotted Saint George in a van,
I feared that his horse might be lame.
Or worse, in a Doggomeat can,
when hurt in some chivalric game.
Saint George, it appeared was not happy,
now car...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
chivalric, england,
Form: Verse
Prophecy
...Amid the deceit and pain of this modern era,
one will be born
who shall embody bygone times and ways;
he will want naught more than an uncomplicated life,
to do what he must and be what he can.
Alwa...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
chivalric, introspection, life, love,
Form: Free verse
Prating Matador: Tale of Two Tails
...In ye old days of yore on Malaga's dreary shore
An untidy castle rimmed by salty moor
Housed a lonely, oft-drunk matador
In briny marsh grazed no sheep, but wild pigs three score
Staggering oft aroun...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
chivalric, fantasy, funny,
Form: Rhyme
From the Courtship Collections
...A Love Departed
I dreamt once as I lay awake in your arms
That I may greet a day
Beneath the wondrous stars
And sunlit rays
With you, only you, once again.
You were daring, chivalric, and m...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
chivalric, devotion
Form: Verse
Satirical Resentment
..." Dear wife, why don't you embrace
the wind of changes by being ablaze? "
the disillusioned husband inquired...
" A lot more affection is required! "
You patiently bore my off-spring with conti...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
chivalric, wife
Form: Quatrain
Primate
...A single word is branded into the fresh snow in urine.
'Memoriam'
Over the crest of a barren hill covered in winter's dowry,
there is a brown form huddled over a burning tire,
shivering alone...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
chivalric, science, science fiction
Form: Free verse
Related Poems