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...

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...

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...

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...

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.
...

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...

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
...

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...

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, 
...

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, ...

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 ...

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...

At King Arthurs Court

...Sir Lancelot was the greatest
Sir Gawain was the soundest
Sir Galahad was the purest
Sir Cumference was the roundest...

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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