Shouldst Poems

Bite Your Tongue

...
Chaucer wrote, "... thy tongue shouldst thou restrain."
There is truth in his words for a vile one can cause pain.
A sword unsheathed from its scabbard can pierce a heart.
In like manner, a wick...

Tale of the Forgiving Betold

...*Image of Forgiveness by Pixabay.

Tale of the Forgiving Betold

Albeit a notable stretch
that stars wouldst a fairer 
share of thee and sheath
thy warm expanse.

Sire, alack thy...

Exsquisite Melancholy

...Time is like a shadow bright
 It fades and never can requite
 A lip, a shade, a palest kiss 
The sorrow that my heart did wish
 Clasped upon the rose and chain
 When fate cannot thus so agonize
...

Yspirfal

...Yspirfal across the sky
Awake now with a loving light
For I have summoned thee with song
And I have shaped thee to belong
In facets of eternal night
Where alor hath made the dim seem bright
Hys...

Ode On Old Virtues Ii

...Let me not play tuneless in today's time,
Some purists sure get praised as Gandhian,
Yet, crass nevertheless is no more crime,
Old values are hailed may be in heaven.

Whilst weighing values for...

One Season Then When Summer Wakes

...A season and the shadows run
To all the seasons left undone
One season and the shadows find
To every season left behind
But then I find in summers wake
The season that the season makes
Just lik...

Quest of the Heart: Chapter One, Cont

...Of Ghosts and fiends in Twilight, Cont.


A thought flashed in my mind from the old tales told
The lore of the beast and I had felt his foul breath
I had seconds to act or be devoured alive
I h...

Amazing Love - Hymn

..."Amazing love! How can it be
that thou, my God, shouldst die for me?"
	-From the hymn "And can it be that I should gain?" by Charles Wesley



Woe is me! The greatest sinner,
My sins ...

Tale of a Forgiving Challenge

...*Image of Forgiveness by Pixabay.

Tale of a Forgiving Challenge

Albeit a notable stretch
that stars wouldst a fairer 
share of thee and sheath
thy warm expanse.

Sire, alack th...

A Mermaid's Parting Words

...Fare well, fair mortal, fare thee well.
Of our sorrow who can tell?
Thou to the land and I to the brine
Thou must go thy way, I must go mine.

But if thou e'er shouldst choose to stand
Upon a s...

Ode On Old Virtues

...Virtue, thou art old wine of vague value
Admired even by vintners nary more,
Nor by the adherents taking time’s cue,
Ye decorate archaic ancient lore.

Watch new high-fliers that surface from sh...

Enclosed Rhyme

...this is an enclosed rhyme
these next two sentences
enclosed as in parenthesis
with the first and fourth line

The rhyming sequence must conform to A,B.B.A, any other format then...

Dear Sire

...Dear Sire, minstrel and poet oh most dear 
prithee doth tell whilst thou with quill adore 
thine art of rarest breed, mine heart doth peer 
whereon I do beseech thee write me more 

of yesterday...

Windhoek, 2000

...Windhoek, 2000

Nabucodonosor! thou shouldst be living at this epoch:
Namibia hath desire of thee: she is a quagmire
Of quiet rainwaters: slab, blade, and cage,
Inglenook, the courageous fortune...

Golden Wheat and Stars

...and if 't be true by mine own feet 
i shouldst findeth myself in a vast 
swaying field of golden wheat
and if 't be true by divine assistance 
i shouldst reacheth toward the brightest 
night sta...

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