Short Jousting Poems

With his arms on knees steadies his lance
Searching for breath gives him a glance...

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A macabre dance
with whatever
the subconscious
drags into my dreams
scuttling my already
fitful sleep....

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Pencil Pushers

haiku can hurt you
juxtaposition jousting
upon leaden steeds

John g. Lawless
©6/6/2017...

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Jousting courses -
Knight classes available. 



If you rise above your station,
You'll never catch that subway train....

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Passerine in black
Jousting for mid air order
Murder in the skies




http://www.thehighlanderspoems.com/poetry-soup-8.php...

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Jocular jokester jetting past Jib.
Joyful juggernaut jousting in jest.
Benevolent benefactor beseeching baby’s bib.
Bequeathing beloved blue beret, belly button the best....

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The plain song moves 
Drifting on the wind
Flags riffle
At its passing
A nervous horse
Prances and kicks
Death pauses
Wipes his plate 
For rich feeding 
Combat approaches
...

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Flags
Miniature standards
Plunged by
A child’s hand
into turrets
Of a castle 
of golden sand
Long washed clean
By rolling tides.
Sometimes
A bugle plays
On 
Omaha Beach
...

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Jousting only because of the kings pleas,
lanced once too often feeling apathy,
drinking from cup,
holes sprung much,
feeling like a piece of holey swiss cheese.





11-14-16...

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A Brilliant Crystal Dome Extends.
For Geniality, Host Intends:
Jousting Knights, Luminous Metal,
Novel Ocean, Proud Quetzalcoatl.
Richard Supervising Trials Undergone
Via Wandering Xysts, Yon Zones....

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verbs pranced across my mind
gardening, wiggling, giggling, slipping, sliding
jiggling, and sometimes sledding
jumping, jousting, boasting, ghosting
they were too fast to catch
but I ran after them, trying my best...

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All brimming crystal drizzled earth frazzled glory hugged;
Icicles jousting kaleidoscopic light, meets
Natures overfrosted pinnacled quiverings.
Raining snow tumults us, Life-like vanities: 
Waning xylems' younger zeniths...

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Any bold cloud dancing 
enjoys flirting gallantly,
hoisting; inspiring; jousting;
knowing laughter makes nice orchestrations
particularly quenching raw spirits
teaching unabashed vanity

While Xylophones yammer zanily....

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A
mute
poet 
wonders why
seeds from soulful words
fail to blossom his lotus voice.
A silent knight jousting against his militant muse,
whose armour is a sword of metaphors piercing verses to bleed through poetic forms....

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His body lay dormant rather still;
No longer jousting and carrying on;
Mindscape wrinkles in his brain no longer his will;
Stiff as the trees in the forest strong;


2/3/22
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2022©
Elegy...

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It must have dazzled Free Will
To be jousting with Fate.
Clanks there no discordant
But armour intimate.

Dark, or roseate-crested, one of
Either the former's knights.
Sent out its castle wall, beyond
For the latter's world-fights....

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I dreamt a great knight was jousting for me

His lance tossed the opponent from his steed

     In great joy I reveled

     But soon felt dissheveled

When mask was lifted, Nancy Pelosi!    


*Political Nightmare for John's Contest...

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Natures sweet angel has arrived
metal eye that doesn't discriminate
invisible warrior jousting with a giant
slowing the destruction of earth's heart..
David slaying Goliath with sling and rock
from the cool-cool lungs of a bramble God
We're always six feet from our prayers...

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see her, you see
That distant part of me
Never to be lonely 
In the mind of my "one and only"

Omare in her sight
Feelings are aflight
Jousting for attention
try as i might

She will not ignore me
Nore has she ceased caring 
Transparency of my love
I am undeserving see...

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Oh, March,
You vagabond of trumpet gales
Swirling city trash
‘round tipping cans
Tugging
At fully outstretched flags
Ruffling Robin feathers
Jousting with Jonquils
Elevating
A hungry hawk
Howling
At the heels of fleeing winter
Lest it keep you
From a date with spring
...

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Such a grand memory I set aside,
Passing time in the French bucolic countryside
Passing lazy days away
Sipping sweet, sweet wine.

Lifting spirits, jousting melancholic ways
Experience expunging naivete
The Louvre, or the opera
Blessing a bravura shrine
Seeking serenity, here and now,
I long to stay, this place mine...

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mounted warrior
                                                             lance ahead
                                                                Charge  !     {LOL}








Entry for  
Deborah Simpson's
 Medieval's Contest
                                       


Just Gotta Love 
A Guy On Horseback...

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Dare challenge me? 
Then be my guest …

The stags enter into a jousting quest,
No time now for antlers to rest,
The challenger locks his horny crest,
With focused stare and forceful zest,
A testosterone and power fest,
Nature at its Darwinian best.

Into the gene-pool 
He wished to invest,
Can he suceed,
Survive this test?...

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It's TRUTH and LOVE,which spark the light.
It's LIES and DECEIPT which spark the HATE.
Living in the shadows those bent and bound souls 
congregate.
Bowing to their fear, rather than jousting through
and making wide the gates to LOVE.
Tis LOVE FOR ALL, despite their flaws, in which we HEAR and HEED 
God's call. 

Bite Size Poem #41...

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Serenaded silence
Under blushing sun
Swinging hands holding
Flowering love
Fledgling fingers 
Jousting to arrhythmic beats
Summer soliloquies
Too shy to fluently speak
Sweet somethings
Whispered in ticklish ears
Swirling sentiments
Searching to endear
Grown-up glances
Alternating until one
Longing lips converging
Under blushing sun...

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