by Carol B. |
Categories:
absence, anger, depression, loneliness,
Prick me with your vivid green awareness
Let the white pins that needle me
Diminish into their foggy sham
The bridal wreath that scented our commitment
Now doused in unkept hopes and promises
Moss sprouting venom from hurts battled
Like a fish floating in space with no oxygen
I swam in currents without you
The tank occupied with endless dark clouds
Fraught with fear and loneliness
Love now submerged deep in the recess of my mind
Unclear what is sacred what is trash
I prayed you would see the light
That my white knight would return
This battle is fierce and yours to fight
by Daniel Turner |
Categories:
fantasy, fun, imagination, metaphor,
Inside an inkwell, lives a fairy tale
A classic, filled with love and misery
Where," Once upon a time" has long set sail
And "happy ever after's" yet to be
It's plot, a knight, once schooled in chivalry
His quest for love, the dragons he has slain
From Crusades 'round the world to frippery
The jousts with Father Time who drew disdain
Yet deep inside is where brave knight remains
A lifetime of adventures, good and bad
The love he searches for, still unobtained
Still finding peace, his "grail" this Gallahad
Perhaps, I'll buy a quill one of these days
Release Sir Knight and legends of his ways
by Daniel Turner
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by Tim Smith |
Categories:
feelings, love,
Locked up, shackled, tied down and chained
Feeling empty, exhausted, used up and drained
Your heart unsettled with its flickering flame
Probing for answers in life's little game
I hear your cries echoing into the dark night
I could tell you everything will be alright
I feel your big lonely heart splitting apart
I could say I'll give your heart a fresh start
I hear your words begging to stop the blues
I could say I will be your knight and rescue you
I hear the tremble in your voice when you speak
I could tell you I'd hug you and kiss your cheek
These eyes don't lie, I'll probably never be with you
My tears fall knowing there is nothing more I can do
by Seren Roberts |
Categories:
horse, love,
I lay my head upon the softness of its mane
My white charger, no knight for a swain
as I am the gallant rider looking for love.
Riding the green valleys with mountains above,
looking for hope in natures fertile plain
A dream, a carousel of tears and pain
With bobbing horses making a colourful train
Flying above a sure sign of hope, a dove
I lay my head
Imagination in play as I search in vain
Why from happiness must I abstain
My empty heart crying out to those above
Praying each night, please bring me love
Grabbing a handful of the silky white mane
I lay my head
by Carol B. |
Categories:
care, emotions, love,
Dark and weathered you feel confused
I knock on your heart but you won't let me through
If privacy is granted you won't see the light
I can still see a keyhole don't give up the fight
It pains me to see you without a window of hope
I can't handle the nails that drive your slate home
Lets restore your foundation and give it new life
Veneer will protect you I will find the best knight
The lock is against us please give me the key
I beg you I love you please listen to me.
by Rico Leffanta |
Categories:
betrayal, culture, love, lust, romance, sensual, sexy,
Queen Guinevere was quite a sight
When Arthur returned from a fight
He looked up and down
Then said with a frown,
"You look like you've had a rough knight!"
Arthur opened the bedroom door
Where clothes lay all over the floor
"This looks rather bad,"
Said Sir Gal He Had,
"I've mistaken your wife for an whore."
There's more to the story than that
The Kingdom of Arthur fell flat
But Queen Guinevere
Did not shed one tear
For she loved to give tit for tat!
by Darlington Lordkelvin |
Categories:
beauty, how i feel, true love,
I stand like an inverted portrait on your wall
Bollixed Like a lost wallet in a mall
I remained Glued to you all day and night
Like a scabbard to the waist of a knight
Your inexplicable uniqueness got me riveted
And leaves me feeling complete like a script that has been vetted
The sun is full of envy of your brightness
Even Your shadow divulges your uprightness
Your smiles makes me feel like the clock has stopped ticking
And energetic like a baby in the womb that's kicking
You are the moon, I am the night
In my darkness hour, you are my light
#PoeticLord#
(c) June 2019
by Arthur Vaso |
Categories:
allusion, art, beauty, history, love, psychological,
Come to my boudoir Cheri
I am here all for thee
In red and lace
I shall entangle you will love
Entice you with lust
Tease you till desires run dry
You shall be the knight who rides my thigh
In the bonny highlands we shall have our romp
Meadows and fields of summer scent and breeze
I shall wrap you in my honey warmth
Mine, all mine you will be
Wrapped, entwined around my wee finger
Enslaved with love
My love
You belong all to me
by James Inman |
Categories:
lost love,
he's holding her hand
cheerleader beyond the glass
his knight takes my queen
02/03/16
by Tim Smith |
Categories:
love,
Twittering squeaks, the Swallow calls
Harboring inside these darkened walls
High in the loft, of the barn where she rests
Calling her mate to come back to the nest
Majestic beauty come to me once more
Together we'll spread our wings and soar
Singing our song with the rise of the sun
Perfect harmony between two loved ones
Memories of flights over fields of green
I was your knight, you were my queen
Flitting and fluttering we were in love
No longer swallows, we were now doves
Hearing his calls, her mate has come back
Her day's been brightened, erasing her black
by Sara Kendrick |
Categories:
love,
On the horizon dawn sits
My knight in shining armour
Waits, gallantly he rides forth
Embraces his bride and kiss
Sponsor: Poet Destroyer, A
Contest: Any poem under five lines
Any form/subject
by Wandering Butterfly |
Categories:
death, dedicationfamily, family,
You've portrayed the lives of many
A soldier, a son, a dad, and the enemy
Who I ask, shall portray your life
In a story to reveal your demise
The Big Screen carries your legacy
Your family keeps quite a memory
Her Daddy she can always see
By watching his movies on T.V.
Such a talent you beheld
Quite a story to be a tale
"Why so serious?" as Joker will say
One of the favorite roles you play
Far to young, to go away
May you rest in peace where you lay
A knight in shining armour you'll be
When again your face, your family will see.
for Chriss Matt's contest: Gone too soon***
hope you enjoy...LOVE Miranda Lambert, A.K.A *Randa*
by Jan Allison |
Categories:
dream, feelings,
I often have the same dream
Of castles in the air
With a knight in shining armour
To give me love and tender care
He’d help me fight my battles
To ease my troubled life
We’d live in perfect harmony
Maybe I’d become his wife
I wonder do our dreams come true
Where are you my love... I’m so missing you
Jan Allison
20th November 2014
by John Fenn |
Categories:
devotion, happiness, hope, love
Sweep away the past, and all
The times that brought you sorrow
Your future lies in us until
Tomorrow and tomorrow
Lock your nightmares up beyond
Some vast and solid door
I’m your knight in shining armour
And will be for evermore
Shut out your lifelong worries
All your troubles and your fears
Lay down with me my lady
I will kiss away your tears
by John Lawless |
Categories:
lost love, soldier,
You Walked Away
I carried it always
…that scarf
……stolen
….….as you walked away.
Wore it as a knight
….adorned
……in my lady’s colours.
soothed myself
…with its soft texture
breathed deeply
…….. imagined scent
……long faded.
Wrapped my wound in it
….tied tightly
……a tourniquet
….to stem the loss of blood
protection
….from death’s coldness.
Hoping
…………it would work
as I shivered
……on that day
……you walked away…….
John G. Lawless
12/14/2015
by Jennifer Proxenos |
Categories:
games,
Holds me tight in his arms every night,
Soothes me if I’m not feeling alright,
Strokes my hair, my body, my soul,
My heart many decades ago he stole.
He falls asleep still holding me tight,
I look at my prince, also my knight,
He sleeps on my pillow with me,
A single bed just right for me and he.
But our king size bed is there,
For when we wake up, so much spare
Space playing games so sensual, making
Memories both quaking and shaking.
God Bless my Prince, hope God will,
Give us many years more, we fill,
Each other’s life with a love so deep,
It is a blessing to have and to keep
by Diamond Poetry |
Categories:
caregiving, childhood, family, children, friendship, love, mother, song-weddingbeautiful, beautiful, love, today,
The princess calls me out tonight
She looks so beautiful, strong and bright
Tears stream down my face
As I look at my darling with her shining knight
taking her away
shes so beautiful today
I know he'll love you till the end
Forever, we'll be friends
Baby, Its hard to see you go
Leaving us for this young lad
You wont be around, but i'll be glad
You deserve more than this whole world
Show mummy everything you hold
My darlings leaving
to start her life
I can tell you, this one thing
She will be the most amazing wife
taking her away
Shes so beautiful today
I know he'll love you till the end
Forever, we'll be friends
by Lin Lane |
Categories:
flower, love,
Such sweet little wildflowers
Shades varied in tones of blue
Growing along stream's bower
Softly kissed by morning dew.
Near such stream, a besotted knight
Walked with his lovely fair maiden
In suit of armor, he met his plight
In his hand, forget-me-nots laden.
Legend has it he fell in the river
Still holding on to his fragile gift
Tossed, the flowers he was to give her
A clenched hand was all he could lift.
As a symbol of faithful love so true
Forget-me-nots grow in early Spring
I will offer some I'll pick for you
When on my knee, I offer you a ring.
by Sara Kendrick |
Categories:
love,
Shining armor clad 'pon a white horse
Eternally strong knight my love, my guide
Reign in, hold, steer my feeble course
Encircle with loving arms, shelter, hide
Now let it be known I'm your pride
Delighted in you, you're love constant source
Intriguing the very thought of you implied
Passionate moments spent no remorse
Incomparable joy, rapture when by your side
Touched, tasted of tranquility yearningly tied
Year: 2012
Sponsor: Francine Roberts
Contest: Romance Me With English Quintain
Written: November 5 and 6, 2012
The first letter of each line read downward
spells another word plus the first letter of year.
by Edwin Guto |
Categories:
analogy,
In a certain far land,
In it there existed,
This knight of love,
Who in it insisted.
This knight of love i say,
"I want my rib,"said he,
"All the cost i will pay,"
Were the words spewed by thee.
Many a beholder he had,
That never wanted him dead,
That all cherished him to the brim,
For he was a big a dream.
In this same far land,
There existed a beautiful girl,
Who the night of love loved,
With a love engraved in his heart.
by Carolyn Devonshire |
Categories:
lost love, heart, heart,
overwhelming passion
so convincing was your game
frail heart spun like a yo-yo
until at last the toy, like you, didn’t return
broken I lay
huddled in sheets of despair
empty bed, my new home
anguish seemed to last an eternity
sadness made way for anger
anger led to acceptance
acceptance to complacency
hidden I remain
heart within an impenetrable fortress
only night, not a knight, seeks passage
darkness everywhere
memories expelled
because I loved you
I shall never love again
*by Carolyn Devonshire for Dana’lynn’s “Secondhand Emotion” contest
by Nigel Fawcett |
Categories:
caregiving, friendship, lovemay, me,
I am woken by your cries in the night
I mount my steed and prepare to take flight
Tell me of the dragons that I may fight
To rid you of pain and restore your sight
Let down your hair from your prison towers
That I may place you amongst the flowers
And soothe your worries in April’s showers
Restoring your strength with all my powers
I will mend your heart and banish distress
And, with love and care, will make you hurt less
Relax and be touched by my mind’s caress
And let me serve you, my precious princess
I may not ride a horse, or dress in white
But I promise I’ll always be your knight ~
by Frederic Parker |
Categories:
poetry,
I came to journey to your castle wall
To cross the bridge to your velvet heart
I have come to walk in your spirit's hall
And see its beauty as your fears depart
To be your Knight and chosen sentry
Who will guard against all shadowed course
To protect your love from evil's entry
With reasoned patience and gentle discourse
I'm a quiet Knight of truthful passion
Who will share with you love's strongest desire
I will unfurl your heart's flag in fashion
And plant it firmly in love's burning fire
I came to journey to your castle wall
To hear soft sighs of love's enchanting call
contest Building Castles in the Sky
10/26/16
by Jessica Thompson |
Categories:
addiction, desire, feelings, longing,
A ranging hunger deep inside,
a twisted coat of shame
a free-wielding fire
that nothing can contain
It can not be extinguished,
the searing sword of lust
to feed the growing hunger
that turns ashes into dust.
How insatiable it must feel,
the demanding, constant drive
when feeding the growing need
makes you feel alive.
It's variations of emotion,
where love is but discourse
because you crave something more
an intimate, emotional divorce.
Everything can't be cuddled,
making love will not suffice
where pain equals pleasure
needs aren't always nice.
The world is not a PG page,
nor only black and white
sometimes it calls for a freak
and not a gentle knight.
by Besma Riabi Dziri |
Categories:
art, dedication, humanity, muse, poetess, poetry, writing,
Besma, rhyme old poetess
The word for her a charming princess
Poetry is her valiant knight
A guiding Muse who pops at night
So obsessive she is about spelling
With a genuine flair for creative writing
Her forte is the soulful human touch
So elated when praised as such
Watching romance and action films her leisure
Reading and listening to music for her a pleasure
Horror movies make her heart sink
For sci-fi stories she has no flowing ink
To serve and enlighten, her wish and dream
With Love, peace and joy Humanity will beam
To help the world beautify, that’s her aim
Not just a goal, for her a right to claim..
Bio Poetry Contest sponsored by : Julianne Williams