Retainers Poems - Poems about Retainers

...I see us cowering within our safety walls of sterile nonorganic comfort I feel us, almost smell us, struggling vacillating between pungent stink of fear inside and acrid acidic anger ab......Read the rest...

... Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain. Friedrick Schiller We are now used to accept that money Is our gods, and getting it is pure honey. I bought a cargo vesse......Read the rest...

...The Rhymed Poem aka The Rhyming Poem and The Riming Poem Old English Poem (i.e., Anglo-Saxon Poem) from the Exeter Book, ca. 990 AD loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch He who gr......Read the rest...

...The Rhymed Poem aka The Rhyming Poem and The Riming Poem - Part II anonymous Old English Poem from the Exeter Book, circa 990 AD loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch He who grant......Read the rest...

...This world is only flat as I could wish for it to be. All wishes come from hungry hearts as mine. Curves I visit bring a noise of motion. Unexpected joy and wonder found in every moment ......Read the rest...

...Medieval Poem V A Proverb from Winfred's Time anonymous Old English poem, circa 757-786 loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch 1. The procrastinator puts off purpose, never in......Read the rest...

...Winter Awakens My Care anonymous Middle English poem, circa 1300 loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch Winter awakens all my care as leafless trees grow bare. For now my sighs a......Read the rest...

...[Continued from Part Three] Thereupon the elder gave them all a single cart. It was tall and broad with gems adorning every part and had bells on all four corners plus a balustrade surround......Read the rest...

...Once there was an elder who possessed a fortune vast. He was the proprietor of lands he had amassed, dwellings and retainers and a mansion huge and wide but with just a single doorway to depart ou......Read the rest...

...A Deal with the Chief Campaigner ©2012 C. Brent Cloyd There was a House Speaker named Boehner Sought a deal with the chief campaigner For budget cuts he did hope But campaigner said nope For how w......Read the rest...

...fitted to my palate, made to fit, just for me based on love to embraces me told to keep you close and dear~ two (too) late my mother can hear~ she has a bone to pick with the youth of me now in......Read the rest...