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Gawain Poems - Poems about Gawain


Look Back In Anger to June 2024
...Look Back in Anger to June 2024 You, current denizen of Number Ten With gleaming Colgate smile and Gucci shoes, Take serious pause for thought, reflect on when The voters all reject you and you......

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Categories: gawain, political,
Form: Rhyme
Sir Gawain
...With the might of nine men And with his head full of red hair His brusque fashion and his acumen He carved his place at the King's fair There was only one other To whom he looked with honor A......

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Categories: gawain, literature, myth,
Form: Free verse



Halloween Poems
...It's Halloween! Michael R. Burch If evening falls on graveyard walls far softer than a sigh; if shadows fly moon-sickled skies, while children toss their heads uneasy in their beds, be......

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Categories: gawain, children, grave, halloween, horror,
Form: Rhyme
The Wild Hunt
...The Wild Hunt by Michael R. Burch (King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table have been reported as ghostly hunters, near Devon, around Halloween.) Near Devon, the hunters appear in the sk......

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Categories: gawain, england, halloween, london, myth,
Form: Verse
Arthurian Poems Ii
...Note: the "dd" in Welsh names is pronounced "th." Merlyn's Birth by Michael R. Burch I was born in Gwynedd, or not born, as some men claim, and the Zephyr of Caer Myrrdin gave me my name. ......

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Categories: gawain, england, literature, magic, myth,
Form: Verse



It's Halloween
...It's Halloween! Michael R. Burch If evening falls on graveyard walls far softer than a sigh; if shadows fly moon-sickled skies, while children toss their heads uneasy in their beds, be......

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Categories: gawain, cat, children, evil, grave,
Form: Verse
Ang Pag-Ibig Na Wagas
...Ang pag-ibig na wagas ay walang pagdududa; alinlanga’y di bakas sa gabi ma’t umaga. Sa gitna ng delubyo ay totoong matibay; tapat hanggang sa dulo, hindi humihiwalay. Sa lahat ng sandali ......

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Categories: gawain, love,
Form: Quatrain
The Pictish Faeries
...The Pictish Faeries by Michael R. Burch Smaller and darker than their closest kin, the faeries learned only too well never to dwell close to the villages of larger men. Only to dance in t......

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Categories: gawain, fairy,
Form: Verse
Arthurian Poems
...At Tintagel by Michael R. Burch That night, at Tintagel, there was darkness such as man had never seen... darkness and treachery, and the unholy thundering of the sea... In his arms, ......

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Categories: gawain, england, romance, romantic, true
Form: Verse
Eve of the Faery Clock, Snippet of Canto I
...Influenced by "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" and "The Rape of the Lock," my goal is to write this completely in iambic meter with (mostly?) rhyming couplets. (Though the intro's meter varies, ......

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Categories: gawain, dark, eve, fantasy, satire,
Form: Epic
Premium Member The Lily Maid of Astolat
...The knight of knights, Sir Lancelot, From far away in Camelot, Went by a way that he knew not And thus, by chance, spied Astolat With sunset's gleam upon her tow'rs: T'was there he met the maid ......

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Categories: gawain, devotion, farewell, first love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sir Gawain and the Bertilaks-N
...Feasting and exchanging gifts in full swing On the New Year day in King Arthur’s court A green knight armed with an axe enters And challenges anyone present in the court To strike him once with h......

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Categories: gawain, day, green, kiss, new
Form: Free verse
At King Arthurs Court
...Sir Lancelot was the greatest Sir Gawain was the soundest Sir Galahad was the purest Sir Cumference was the roundest......

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Categories: gawain, funny
Form: I do not know?
Coat of Arms
...Ah, look! here is a fat white samurai, goes by the name of Jeffy. I see him, drunk and slurring insults in the direction of his brothers what a shame. He might have been someone yet here......

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Categories: gawain, history, life
Form: Free verse

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