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The Masnavi of Giti and Saeed - Footnotes and Glossary Part two

...Cultural and Social Terms

Idol: In Persian poetry, often refers to the beloved, particularly one who is non-Muslim. The term carries complex connotations of forbidden desire and spiritual challeng...

Categories: courtly love, cute love,
Form: Prose

Kiss from a Smile

...It is quite an honor to have a person smile upon you when they know nothing of you. Somehow the spirit of the void and the heavens looks favorable upon thy crown and mineth. Why does it happen when w...

Categories: courtly love, allah, cousin, desire, friendship,
Form: Prose

Fall Rhapsody

...Rhymes in Nine 2 10-11-24 Rhymes checked with www.rhymezone Picture #4
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Fall Rhapsody

Fall rhapsody to BEGIN, TOLD IN scarlet tones,
A SERENADE f...

Categories: courtly love, autumn, eve,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Date With Dracula

...Carriage drawn by four black steeds
Zombie coachman no blood to bleed
He is employed by Dracula
Who calls him fondly Tarantula.

Tonight he's on deadly mission
His masters suffering mal...

Categories: courtly love, horror,
Form: Couplet

Guinevere At the Supermarket

...I hear girlish laughter beyond the bagged onions.
Imagine her swimming naked among green ripples.
Her white arms are lily stems, hips as sleek as an otter
flow in a neon moonlight.

A sound syst...

Categories: courtly love, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Heart Shape Love Is Courtly-Love Is Us

...Love Is   courtly 
                            boundless, warm,  fervent
                            steadfast,  spiritual,   free
                                   tough,  happy.
              ...

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

Sweet Rose of Virtue: William Dunbar Translation

...Sweet Rose of Virtue
by William Dunbar (c. 1460-1530)
loose translation/modernization/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

after William Dunbar

Sweet rose of virtue and of gentleness,
delightf...

Categories: courtly love, character, desire, devotion, flower,
Form: Sonnet

Guinevere At the Supermarket

...I hear girlish laughter beyond the bagged onions.
Imagine her swimming naked among green ripples.
Her white arms are lily stems, hips as sleek as an otter
flow in a neon moonlight.
A sound system...

Categories: courtly love, poetry,
Form: Blank verse

Justice Take a Step Forward and Don T Look Back

...Take a Step Forward and Don't Look Back


Drama of lover’s fears and tears.  
I place my hands up to my ears, 
Roll my eyes, and walk away,
Oh, why does it have to be this wa...

Categories: courtly love, conflict, fantasy, moving on,
Form: Free verse

Introduction To Oake of Caemarthen

...Take yourself on a journey into the past with this remarkable first book in the series, Sword of the Holy Grail. Award winning author and poet Isaiah Zerbst brings you his first novel, Oake of Caemar...

Categories: courtly love, bereavement, books, christian, england,
Form: Prose

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 b...

Categories: courtly love, lost love, love, passion,
Form: Free verse

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 thi...

Categories: courtly love, history, life, love, people,
Form: Narrative