No 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
Legends
...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
Nottingham 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
Legends 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
Endless 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
Denizens: 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.
H...
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Categories:
squires, adventure, death, mystery,
Form: Quatrain
Diaspora 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
The 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
Day 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
Conku 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
The 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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