Guinevere At the Supermarket
...I hear girlish laughter beyond the bagged onions.
Imagine her swimming naked among green ripples.
Her white arms are lily stems, hips as sleek as an otter
flow in a neon moonlight.
A sound syst...
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Categories:
tintagel, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Tintagel Bridge
...As I walk along the wooden boards
Flanked by firm railings,
I wonder how they used to cross
From mainland to castle,
Back when the bridge was
Stone and roughly-hewn wood.
The waves crash upo...
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Categories:
tintagel, culture, england, imagery, introspection,
Form: Free verse
The Pictish Faeries
...The Pictish Faeries
by Michael R. Burch
Smaller and darker
than their closest kin,
the faeries learned only too well
never to dwell
close to the villages of larger men.
Only to dance in t...
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Categories:
tintagel, fairy,
Form: Verse
Arthurian Poems
...At Tintagel
by Michael R. Burch
That night,
at Tintagel,
there was darkness such as man had never seen...
darkness and treachery,
and the unholy thundering of the sea...
In his arms,
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Categories:
tintagel, england, romance, romantic, true
Form: Verse
Guinevere At the Supermarket
...I hear girlish laughter beyond the bagged onions.
Imagine her swimming naked among green ripples.
Her white arms are lily stems, hips as sleek as an otter
flow in a neon moonlight.
A sound system...
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Categories:
tintagel, poetry,
Form: Blank verse
King Arthurs Lot
...A Shadorma
Arthur’s lot
memory of myth
it’s never
been proven
legend, myth, reality
will we ever know?
The truth lay
buried but not at
Tintagel
perhaps it’s
elsewhere or p...
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Categories:
tintagel, appreciation, character, hero, myth,
Form: Shadorma
Granny Doris Lives On
...Granny Doris Lives On
“There’s no such thing as rain in Tintagel”.
That’s what my Granny Doris says.
“It’s always lovely weather
For grabbing a bag of pegs”.
She ‘heave-ho’s’ wet laundry
I...
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Categories:
tintagel, clothes, funny, grandmother, grandparents,
Form: Verse
Arthurian Legend Part 1
...Uther, the High king of England
fell in love with the Lady Igraine
Knowing she was married to Gorlois
he decided to fight the walrus
For he was the Duke of Tintagel
that Uther wanted to mangle
‘Th...
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Categories:
tintagel, adventure, education, historyson, baby,
Form: Couplet
King Arthur
...A hot wind blew that day
as I gazed down from the
hills of Tintagel
to the emerald sea and white foam below
that crashed against ancient rocks
and marvelled at ruins
that once was Camelot......
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Categories:
tintagel, history
Form: Narrative