Short Olde Poems

A
silken
coat of arms-
hid a chain of
mail...

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It has even two legs or more
Fisch have only one...

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She
could not
bake the bread-
though she kneaded
dough....

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   Where’s Waldo, Pokemon Go ~

     with Cabbage Patch on ye olde ‘Nostalgia Show’
...

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It may be dusty, gross or reek;
It’s sure to sell if it’s antique.

For Susan’s Antique contest...

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night is a curious fellow
with fog green eyes
that sings
Olde English songs
in accappella
style...

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candied rose & violets
in verjuice salet
a dovecote delicacy
wild flower curd tart
olde worlde food art
cider to
Start!...

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a dovecote delicacy
in verjuice salet
candied rose and violet
wild flower curd tart
olde world food art
cider wine
Fine !...

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HAIKU #111


Olde book here
Dusty as time;
Zen Flesh, Zen Bones


~~~~~~~~~



Leon Enriquez
02 Nov 2020
Singapore...

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Geoffry Chaucer served as a page
first poet of ye olde English age
His Canterbury tales quite a feat
a work  never did complete...

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Old spot sausage,slow braised
Casseroled pigeon
with thyme & parsley spices
A lentil potage
Elderflower ice
Ginger beer
Nice!...

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I have heard you still play them
Those olde, sad songs you loved
Spirited fingertips touch ...
Upon the dusty keys
And haunting melodies...

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The Druids of Ynysybwl
Are concerned that people wear wool
Pulled over their eyes
It shows off  their thighs
Inciting ye olde April Fool!...

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The wife wants an handsome young hunk
To cavort with in his own bunk
And she would be happy
If you made it snappy
As she's prone for ye olde slam dunk!...

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The first son inherited by right
The second,off with his king to fight;
Ab third in a rectory might dwell
The youngest was to marr well..
Family coffers...more to swell....

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Olde English in the vernacular
to celebrate a dialect
Language really said by men
poetized with words 
used there and then

Tribute To Williams Barnes see my blog today 4 Aug...

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There once was a man from Olde Dublin
Whose wife said all that he did was a sin
      So he said, "Just as well,
      If I'm already going to hell."
And later that night did her in....

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Greetings mine olde kith! Sincerely am I,
Praying dreams upon thy pillow are kind;
Nightmares absent. What joy thou bringest I!
May this writer avoid thee not - O mind....

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A leprechaun looking for gold
'neath the shimmering shamrocks of olde
      (with the luck of a Gael)
      found ten bottles of ale
somewhat green as if covered with mould.

3/15/2017...

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(aka Merçi à Lot)

God has a strict measure of worth
As well as a Jew's sense of mirth
God once said to Lot,
"You know what you've got?
Your wife is the Salt of the Earth!"...

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On The Corner

Ye Olde Shoppe still stands on twelfth street
surviving despite the box stores.
The owners never miss a beat
always willing to hand out treats
to children who come through the doors.
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Doing what they love, all are welcome to try
Rhythms of passion fly in the night sky
Up and down the maddening notes dance 
Many drink and sing as drummers are in a trance
Seducing beats are the soul of the Medieval camp...

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Above the choppy,
viewed from
behind the glassy
winded and floppy.
He observes the flossy 
dark black rolling 
white and frothy.
Salt filtered manes blown 
acrossy limpits rocky 
trapping olde anchors rusty
amongst filleted fishy

...

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I sauce a capon
but chine a salmon
I spoil the hen
but truss the chicken
I lift the swan
but disember the heron
I side a haddock
yet disfigure a peacock
A mallard I unbrace
but a coney I unlace
Olde English terms
Now lost without trace...

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Quatrain #609:
OLDE


Outlook moves heart with vivid poise,
Live your own art as love frames choice;
Do act your part in wholeness true,
End where you start with vibrant voice.

~~~~~~~~~




Leon Enriquez
20 January 2017
Singapore...

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