Donjon Poems


Premium MemberEmbossed

Emblazoned with your monogram 
                      Call me your little coin
               Design of us more sacred than 
                       Meteor's noon anoint 

              Howling homeless Winter lingers
                          Fingers in our trove
              Should cruelty a blizzard bring us
                   Brave summoned in droves 

               Prisoners whispered confidence 
                    Shared worries are gone
                Mortar between us is credence 
                    Knife edge secret sworn

               Bearers we, of mightiest sword
                       Armor repels feeble
                Donjon detains nightly reward 
                      Rejoinder agreeable 
 
               For every required expenditure
                      Little Coin will cater
               Conjured to find replenishment 
                      Future emblazoned 

              Energised by mammoth missions 
                     Carved as arrowhead 
              Morale for your instinctive vision
                     Richness never spent





                       26th August 2020
Categories: donjon, care, caregiving, courage, for
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member- Break Not a Flower Nor Inscribe a Stone -

I feel it so strongly deep inside the cry of your heart
It but echoes my souls endless fear of being apart 

Use your strength to go on with life even though it is hard
Where is life’s joy when treated with such reckless disregard?

I wonder can I ever free you from this endless pain?
My body and soul are laden with such cold heavy chain

Lead me through the maze of your mind, let me break down the wall
The donjon has been built of adamant and shall not fall!
 
I will rend the dark veil and bright starlight will fill your soul 
The battlements long secure crumble, your love makes me whole! 



Written by Shane Cooper & A-L Andresen 25.03.2015
Copyright © All Rights Reserved
Categories: donjon, care, deep, life, love,
Form: Couplet


Break Not a Flower Nor Inscribe a Stone - a Collaboration With Anne-Lise


I feel it so strongly deep inside the cry of your heart
It but echoes my souls endless fear of being apart
 
Use your strength to go on with life even though it is hard
Where is life’s joy when treated with such reckless disregard?
 
I wonder can I ever free you from this endless pain?
My body and soul are laden with such cold heavy chain
 
Lead me through the maze of your mind, let me break down the wall
The donjon has been built of adamant and shall not fall!

I will rend the dark veil and bright starlight will fill your soul
The battlements long secure crumble, your love makes me whole!
Categories: donjon, love,
Form: Couplet

Premium MemberMy Daughter I Am Blown Away By Harsh Winds

My Daughter
I am blown away by harsh winds

Melanie, it seems to me, you to be storm clouds
in the distant sky, drifting in and out, passing by
in shades of ever deepening, darker, menacing grays.
You seem to be hidden among shadows, lost in shrouds.

Never a word, an acknowledgement, not even a simple hi
when you come home, hide, then go – gone for days.
you drift through, in different shapes, much like clouds,
one minute this, next minute that, or some other, in my eye.

Who or what you will be, where you are at, I never know.
One minute a unicorn, the next, some kind of dragon.
We might live in a castle in the sky, then it’s a gloomy donjon,
or a sailing ship on the horizon, then grounded, you show

me - no adventures to be experienced, no journeys to take –
that I am surrounded by bells, of deaths toll being sounded 
as I try my best to understand, try to be a good man
that in the end, all I think I know, I must forsake 

B. J. “A” 2
October 2nd 2004
Categories: donjon, daughter,
Form: Free verse

Knight To A-1

Scimitar in hand
The donjon sacked by his band….
The parapet stands
Categories: donjon, allegory, sports, war
Form: Senryu


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