Long Aquila Poems

Synopsis
The lovely Lady Isabeau and her lover, medieval French Knight Etienne escape to flee the lustful advances of wicked Bishop of Aquila causing them to run afoul of him. The evil-bishop places them under a...

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Dawn broke
The eastern pink sky
Drew across the stars
As they faded and lost to the night

 

I called the eagle
To guide me
Piercing whistle
That I learnt as a boy
Running wild and free

 

I walked in the company...

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Favorite Carolyn Devonshire Poem

History Rising from the Sea

Treasure from the sea
Golden doubloon
Sixteenth century artifact
By ancestors hewn

Earth's history lays buried
Beneath five oceans
As undersea tremors
Create violent commotions

Freeing from Spanish galleons
Precious metals, gemstones,
To greet early beachcombers
History on loan

Memories...

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It is crowded standing room only.Door slides shut.
I am not able to get very far from it as I
grab the nearest pole. A young man
who has a grotesque face
stands against the door as he is...

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trees whispered her name
for a queen was born
from a faerie and an archer
who had the soul of a poet
the love of his moondust
in an early summer dawn
a girl came in to this  world
filled with...

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I was born on Altair, a star in the constellation of Aquila
and the twelfth brightest star in your night sky.
After my family and I decided to move here to Earth,
we quickly learned to blend in,...

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Aquila and Moondust
Sat together in soft firelight

No words spoken

Everything had been said

Through their hearts

The love awoken

 

The moon rose high in the night sky

Moondust felt the movement of moons and stars

She saw Aquila

Here and high...

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As surely as the winter melts away into the spring;
So surely as the robins come with mallards on the wing;
As surely as the summer comes and fades away to fall,
You’ll be the only one I...

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Last summer was dry
Grass turned brittle
Beetles devoured roses
Fumes from sweltering engines swept over
   dusty streets like ghosts.
The ground cracked.
Bits of dirt crumbled in my hands.
Bone dry desert thoughts
Puffy lip,tongue cleaving thoughts
  ...

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A Castle could be seen

through the trees

Nestled in richest green

 

The trees

became a meadow

The Castle filled with Faerie song

I turned to Moondust

Kissed her gently

and said….

Here is our place

Here is where we belong

 

Faeries flocked forth

to...

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Starlit Memories

“…recently scenes of early life have stolen into my mind like breezes blown…”
Samuel Coleridge 

Midnight reveries tickle my memories
When I see bright asterisms ascend
Through rivers of stars summers past I see

Constellations retell their starry...

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GREET PRISCA AND AQUILA, MY CO-WORKERS IN CHRIST JESUS, WHO RISKED THEIR NECKS FOR MY LIFE ROMANS 16:3-4

PRISCA (ALSO CALLED PRISCILLA) and Aquila 
Were first-century lay missionaries who accompanied Paul on his travels
His praise of...

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Aquila (The Eagle) Constellation

Strong and brave, you are my eagle.
Soaring strength; gliding above earth.
Your light shines past the dark of day.
And brightens love along the way.

Your kindness perceives my wishes.
You fill me fully with your...

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In the secret place of thunder
Before the rain
You speak my name
At the crack of lightening
My soul, set ablaze with restlessness
Awaits the awakening.
What is this thunder rumbling
Down valleys of distant memory?
What is this agitation
Leading to contemplation
Of...

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I studied the Roman epitaph
Translation provided by museum staff
Of a retired centurion of the 6th Legion
Scratched in letters three inches tall
on a gravestone found near Hadrian’s Wall
 
The name reads Titus Flavius Aquila
Praenomen, Nomen, Cognomen
Personal...

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AQUILA

Aquila
constellations combinations 
permutation patterns her plight
of
water and flight

Eagle
wings soaring powerfully
wind ravages plummeting
her
freedom light


Feather
spiralling slowly lingering
breeze floats cradle embracing 
single
winged slight 

River
rippling chasing competitions
downward streams drive forward
dreams
floating white

Aquila
unrestrained in naked swim
cooling tranquil Aquarian
finds
Eagles height



And…..

With
Feathered Quill
Water and...

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If we could cross the sunset skies,
We'd never need a place to lie,
Finding ourselves above all else,
We could fly until the end of time.

But what goes up must also come down,
Although in spirit form we...

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I carried my longbow

Into twilight

Amongst trees

That whispered and sighed

And welcomed the night

 

In the reflected glow

I looked up to the stars

To the constellations

That I came to know

 

I traced a finger down the wings

Of my...

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A castle filled with light

Love and laughter

Trees that whispered

Faeries that sing

With beauty and delight

 

Aquila and Moondust

The last night at Heartstone

A feast in the Great Hall

That such love

Is within us all

 

A journey has begun

In...

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The wind swept up in a tormenting gale,
Both the ground below and the sky were frail,
History repeats or so they do say,
All the elements released on this day.

Fire consumed earth with its passing flame,
Enraged were...

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I watched Aquila
Fly with his eagles
At sunset
Upon a rock
I sat
With a sky tinged with gold

 
In my heart
In my body within
Such faint stirrings
That I felt
To begin
A girl for a man

 
My Aquila 
At sunset
Came to...

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Oak wears green taffeta
Dancing in March's brisk breeze
Sometimes shakes ill at ease
Are oaks in Africa?
Looking at Aquila? 
An affair with Altair gee ! 

Oak dances with redbud
Changes partners with speed
Forsythia now is freed
When she see...

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