Safe Shores
...A languorous morning
Nestled in between warm duvets, a goose feathered pillow or two…a luxury
A striped kitten, a beautiful shade of grey, on a windowsill grey too; purring, gentle breaths, aut...
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Categories:
sir lancelot, allusion, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Guinevere
...Guinevere
Was King Arthur's darling dear,
Once day, she said, "I'm sorry M'Lord,
I gave your nephew, Mordred, your sword".
Mordred was not a man one should entrust.
King Arthur was a bit more ...
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Categories:
sir lancelot, betrayal, death, humor, myth,
Form: Clerihew
Its Up To Me
...All those dancers and cheerleaders
Dealers and losers
Faint hearts and beacons
Before me
Its Up to me, down to me
I may resume the matter
hurtling footsteps
Sir Lancelot waiting
working ...
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Categories:
sir lancelot, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
The Politics of Politics
...When you are a politician, they all want you with fruition
if you were a great magician you would wave a magic wand
When you are a politician you have to watch your diction
if you want to ach...
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Categories:
sir lancelot, analogy,
Form: Rhyme
Camelot
...
O Camelot! O Camelot!
The winds have changed, the land got hot!
Though dromedaries are quite neat,
A bactrian's hard to unseat,
And so the knights still joust a lot.
At banquet feast...
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Categories:
sir lancelot, fantasy, silly,
Form: Quintilla
Easter Ocelot
...I postulate ocelots
as proselytes for chocolate:
they’d get word out on the dot;
they’re easy to spot.
And I’d tell a parable
or something comparable,
with a nugget of caramel
to be retold ...
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Categories:
sir lancelot, children, chocolate, nonsense,
Form: Tail-rhyme
The Lady
...A happy ending to "The Lady of Shallot"
(In deference to Lord Tennyson)
But then the sky's uncommon grace
shown bright and lively on her face
as sullen visage was replaced
and Heaven's holy li...
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Categories:
sir lancelot, poetry,
Form: Metrical Tale
Chivalry Up In Smoke
...Lady Guinevere and Sir Lancelot
Trapped in a dungeon, his help she sought --
Guinevere screamed, she yelled
But Lancelot, help withheld --
Damsels rescued, how quaint ~ This knight sold po...
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Categories:
sir lancelot, change, giggle, history,
Form: Limerick
Refreshingly Cozy Chill September Aire
...Cold front brings August respite
upon cusp of autumn quite
natural palliative to forget monetary plight
relieving spate of dog days of summer
seasonal crisp balm appeared overnight
evidenced of ...
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Categories:
sir lancelot, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
6th Century Preventive Medicine
...Sir Lancelot
didn't smoke pot
He wielded a shield and a mask
~ A wineskin and a flask...
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Categories:
sir lancelot, courage, soldier,
Form: Clerihew
My Grandmother Vienna Fv
...I was thirteen the first time I pinned my eyes on her
She smelled of Italy, with peppermint breath that clung sweet
each time she kissed me affectionately with love-caress
She told stories o...
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Categories:
sir lancelot, inspirational love,
Form: Free verse
Wales of Myths and Legends
...In the heart of Wales beneath shade of trees
In world's stillness relieving in pages
Of bloom gardens as playful fairies tease
Shape-shifting wizards man of the ages
Caught a top of a fire br...
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Categories:
sir lancelot, dream, england, fantasy, vacation,
Form: Sonnet
Stepping Through Time
...The art gallery,
Was inspiring and exciting,
A portrait consuming,
Sir Lancelot,
King Arthur’s closest companion,
The greatest swordsman of his time,
A knight of the round table,
Her eyes were...
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Categories:
sir lancelot, poems,
Form: Free verse
Sir Lancelot
...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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Categories:
sir lancelot, drink, humor,
Form: Limerick
Reflecting Brilliant Light
...All my life, up until now, The TV channel playing in my head late at night even after I have gotten out of bed, has only been a test pattern. Then a voice called out my name didn't know from where i...
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Categories:
sir lancelot, angel,
Form: Free verse
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