Short Battlements Poems

The meter—the castle,
  the rhyme in the moat

The battlements weary,
  all meaning afloat

The knights at the ready,
  swords sharpened and drawn

Each piercing a sonnet
—each flag a new dawn

(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2016)...

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Unguarded by the living now,
The castle stood.
Drawbridge dangling.
Tongued mouth reaching outward.
Crenulations gnawing, 
The stark gray sky.
Rime-covered battlements
Coated with gangrenous moss moan.
With a banshee’s howl through apertures
Where archers once stood....

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. for public domain

(Why some people walk dark alleys on Christmas Eve)

From stone battlements they stare
into blackness, each aware
of the dark night of the soul,

where so many loose their way
ere the breaking of the Day,
wash out to sea with the shoal.

Each a beam of Heaven's Grace,
ready offer God's embrace,
to mend broken lives, whole....

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. . . or maybe 
the esotericism of 
whatever 
passes for 
academic 
discourse 
in these later 
days of no 
Latin no Greek   
no rollick in 
the original 
tongues of bards 
who in facing 
the Moors had 
strummed of 
delayed lust 
for ladies 
a-waiting 
in their foggy 
homelands 
pining away 
from unassailable 
baconies far up 
on cold stone 
battlements 
yet holding 
the dream 
aloft ....

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The whimper of a defenseless child weak and haunting can fill the cup,
of melancholy to age a grail of tears.
The squeal most animal like as heart is pierced
by betrayal a declaration ..almost     too real.
The bawl of hunger and indignity the red-faced rage of entitlement,
the dry-eyed warning hail of men from battlements, so many, variations,
so many wet displays, so many maudlin melodies
of man and his betrayal…...

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Show me the gate
Show me the fortification
I see the trooping of colors

Where is the gate show me
Show me that i may lock it
I see the trooping of colors

Show me the mole
Show me that i might eliminate
Roy i see the trooping of colors

Show me the battlements
Show me the prepared designs
Roy i see the trooping of colors

Why did we go to war
We went to protect
The south gate.. i see colors




Code 254
(southgate remmembrant)...

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