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Squires Poems - Poems about Squires

Premium MemberNo Bling for the King

...The King stepped up and set his goal.
Screamed, "Things must change or heads will roll."
Wide-eyed council plead, please prepare!
No grain is left and our coffer's bare.

As I fear we must, thou...
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Categories: squires, war,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberLegends

...Of Kings and Queens and magic rings

Sorcerers and Dragons

Of Knights and Squires and midnight fires

Wines from kegs and flagons

Of battles won beneath the sun

For castles in the sand
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Categories: squires, history,
Form: Rhyme



Sappho Translations XIV

...Sappho Translations XIII by Michael R. Burch

In these translations the fragment numbers are mostly Lobel-Page. All translations are by Michael R. Burch and should be so credited if they are used i...
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Categories: squires, dream, father, girl, god,
Form: Free verse

A Devil that dared

...The return to youth was what he brought me back to, but this was the issue. I've attempted leaps and extensions far away from my youth. From its eternal beauty and ego-driven agility and the experien...
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Categories: squires, break up, heartbroken, innocence,
Form: Prose Poetry

Premium MemberNottingham Girl At The Goose Fair Prt 1

...Every year In Robin Hood Country Nottingham
There in October, they hold. What is known, as the Goose Fair. It's huge. and goes back centuries, straining the Middle Ages, perhaps even longer.
My pal...
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Categories: squires, history, longing,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberLegends of the Past

...On the battleground where evil fell
That spread throughout both hill and dale
Are the whispered tales of swords and slings
And the legend of a thousand kings

White knights and squires on armore...
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Categories: squires, death, war,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberEndless Melody

...Our sounds are a glamorous ode poem
Like a spiral of blooms in appearance.
Blithe beaming beaches and a balmy hum.
Our sounds are a beautiful ode poem
Closeness has hit a fever pitch;...
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Categories: squires, analogy, appreciation, passion,
Form: Triolet

Premium MemberDenizens: Prologue - 1

...Part 1 of ?

Clippety, cloppety, clippety, cloppety
All the king’s horses and all the king’s men
mounted for battle in all of their armor; they
rode off so gallantly through moors and fens.

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Categories: squires, adventure, death, mystery,
Form: Quatrain

Premium MemberDiaspora Link

...That Diaspora represent a piece of my identity,
Strewed my views on the squires of taciturnity,
Inconspicuous lines and depictions,
And then there's the pencil wizard,
Follow my body'...
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Categories: squires, analogy, appreciation, bereavement, caregiving,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Grand Staircase

...The ceiling lowers a chandelier’s glow,
A suspended drizzle of glass fireflies.
Marble tiers like a sharp-edged ruffle,
Scaled by lissome feet in buffed leather shod.
As jewels’ shine with sequin...
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Categories: squires, beauty, cinderella, desire, men,
Form: Curtal Sonnet

Premium MemberDay In the Life of a Late Summer Day

...Sleep.. indigo’s eyes, night loving allies,
Sol’s flare is stars' disguise dawn till dusk’s reprise,
peach awe-inspired skies effuse juice sunrise,
east, grapefruit pink lies - lemon slice rhapsod...
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Categories: squires, appreciation, day, imagery, nature,
Form: Monorhyme

Stephanus Marcus 5

...Stephanus Marcus Book I
Canto I
Verses 8 and 9

Swords, bucklers, "apparatus belli" seen,
all shields escutheoned by their family sign.
Pass gate, across bridged moat, on road called Queen,
ra...
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Categories: squires, england,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberConku In Progress

...The Beheading of Thomas

Let the clowns play on heathens dirt floors
With the rabble and unwashed masses

The Squires shall reside above
With men at arms and knights of superior glove

Allegi...
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Categories: squires, art, england, evil, history,
Form: Couplet

P,J,S

...Poor Jeremy Squires.

Jeremy Squires a strange wee breed
would cough and sneeze all day indeed.
So Marjorie Proctor sent for the doctor.
She asked that he come real quick.
Before Jeremy Squires...
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Categories: squires, children, nonsense, sick,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThe Secret Lives of Chimney Pots Iii

...Marching out of the cloaked shires
Of landowners, stockbrokers, 
Hereditary Peers, and ruddy faced 
Squires:
A vast multitude of many varied 
Tribes.
Amassing in the great cities, where,
Inhab...
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Categories: squires, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme

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