Long Cedric Poems

[First posted in 3 parts. Intended novel: time never allowed]

Prologue
This,  Sir, is the prologue from before our tale begins
About the day our father did succumb to mortal sins
And left behind a man who would...

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Foreword: Contains excepts from, and additions to, my own three part poem ‘Bone Idol’, which is way too long to submit here.

Skeleton Quay

He lingers on the quayside and heeds the phantom howls
Out on mist shrouded...

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Skeleton quay - abridged for Give Me Goosebumps contest



When the sniper fired his rifle and his faithful canine fell
A second bullet found his heart and he went down as well
Might we stay together, somehow he...

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The Un-Cowboy Like Cowboy
this is the story of cedric hyde-fleet
the most un-cowboy cowboy you ever would meet
cedric was english, not british you see
but, being a cowboy was what  he wanted to be

he was from england
as i...

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Morgana was born into her role as dragon raiser as a sixth daughter
The beasts she nurtured were sweet as youth, but grew to slaughter
Some thrived near lakes and swamps, all kinds of glistening water.
Morgana showed...

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Stephanus Marcus Book 1
Canto 4
Verses 4 and 5

This blow dealt most hard broke Marcus's glaive
and second strike that Cedric gave hurt knight.
Ben Brooster laid Sir Marcus low with stave.
The blow put knight upon the clay...

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Book 1
Canto 4
Verses 2 and 3

With bright red shield doth Sinefred lead his line,
and thunder roars of coming lancer knights.
Attacking mails include the hunting nine
that used Charles's peregines in killing flights.
Now might will say who...

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Stephanus Marcus Book 1
Canto 4
Verses 6 and 7
In saddle he attacks Sir Sinefred's shield
and smites with mace red buckler giving baste.
Duke Morley reins his steed from fight to yield
to Marcus; Leopard strikes again in haste
and...

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Stephanus Marcus Book I
Canto2
Verses 4 and 5

The hunting parties ride in teams of three.
Each force has falcon trained in cage for prey.
Groups make a wager paying needed fee,
pot goes to winner by the close of...

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My smiling Cedric sings to me.
He's loud and often gets off key.

I just don't care cuz he's so fine!
We can't date yet. We're only nine.

     *******************

We’re nineteen. Cedric’s still the one.
Our...

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Dainty toad girlie gave a cha-cha-cha
Her dress was lacy, and her lashes were tah-dah
You have so much lace! Said her potential mother-in-law
She was persnickety though, this mother of Thaw.

Thaw had been chasing the dainty bullfrog...

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Sailor Bill decided to sail
Around the world where others had failed,
With him his trusted right hand man,
Cedric, the pelican.

Cedric would give him plenty of warning
When the seas looked like storming,
He'd flap his wings and do...

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Glad for the country lanes
and the buzzing bees.
Glad for our talk under the trees,
and that he listened.

Cedric loves me,
I am sure of it,
for he squeezed my hand
before he moved away.

Glad for the country lanes,
and for...

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