Guinevere's bed

Shall a pale shadow

and she a ghost, a phantom

cost so valiant a king,

whose heart will hold with a promise

and break it with beguiling.

She will betray you with her kiss

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Arms that will hold you,

eyes that have encaptured your own,

in another's arms entwined

making warm with passion the place

where is no promise to bind.

Dying sweetly in the embrace

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Chivalry begone

with chasing from the kingdom.

Camlan's field will be the site,

the question Guinevere shall pose,

wild the cherry she will bite,

will bitter you too in the throes.

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Was it Caliburn?

taken up for the kingdom

that had brought the victory

or was it honour which prevailed?

the true cause we may now see.

Then cast away the sword that failed.

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Ah valiant heart

will be for a shadow pale,

pierced through with lady's arrow.

When she has made you cuckold,

then Albion's race will know,

for Guinevere's bed they were sold.

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Mist that lays across

not only lake but the realm

now veils from our eyes the view

that noble, which made you great.

The find your strength in virtue,

victory shall not be late.

Teasel Teasel

Tease me with teasel down weasel way

my lover will comb my hair today

if he is gentle and teasels well

I will open my heart, all my feelings tell

If he is rough, teasel will catch

I will show him the door, lift up the latch

If he is foolish, teasel will break

he will forsake me, my heart will ache.

The Water Meadows [Winchester]

Flowering down the meadow view

grass lush and head swayed poppies

dong a song the distant church bell

the butterfly's aimless intention pursue

along corridors of wind change breeze

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Hummed stillness across the water pond

frenzied the wingéd dancers

buttercups made golden by sunshine

peek'a'boo playing among the trees beyond

which also hide squirrel from casual glancers

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Heavenly scented laying so light in the air

as yet unmoved by the sparrow wing

bathed in the summer evening glow

beauty of nature the water meadows share

with nobody and with all and with everything

*

Closing the day down clouds now veiling

the last pipes of the rude blackbird rising

it has been a day of shouts and of laughter

but now the velvet of quietude prevailing

the approaching shadows of nightfall advising

PIE JESU

HAYLEY WESTENRA SINGS

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Rollerskate lovers

ROLLERSKATE LOVERS

I wrote this little poem after a lovely afternoon whizzing around Hyde park and Kensington Gardens with my boyfriend.

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Glide me down swiftly so fleet

choosing this path takes me into your arms

gentle the arc I draw

twice two for figure eight

round and round I'm a carousel

hold me tight, no alarms

*

Look at me! slicing the breeze

my coming darling is only for you

the wind brushes my face

sunshine plays in my hair

races, the beating of my heart

I'm alive! everything's new!

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Avenues of trees slide by

for the moment you are lost to my view

so wheel the wheel backwards

you are still out of my sight

turn the full circle, where are you?

with eyes for me so true

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Look there! our tryst, we shall meet

our paths, love, will cross once more, you and I

nothing can stop us now

our joyful collision sure

hand holding hand, happily we

my head on your shoulder I sigh.

Love's petals bruiséd

Love's petals bruiséd

Betrodden love petals, passion bruiséd

beautiful yet and lovely still

desire pinioned but free in my fragrance

my love no longer may choose it's will

*

I responded to your sunshine warmth

so soon my girlhood unfolded for you

simplicity welcomed, it was no mere show

perhaps now only in fragrance true

*

Swayed by a breeze, it was my foolish pride

which wafted my sweet scent away from you

you, who had divided for me my petals

to effect only a tease to another's view

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It ought to have been you, my darling love

who had crushed my naiveté, passion's pain

and threw down my softness upon the ground

lovely though folded now, 'gainst the driving rain

*

Breeze carry again my fragrance to you

but be not too tender, nor gentle me so

you caused my surrender to that so brutal

whose bruising desire would not let go

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Flower encaptured but only to you

belongs my blush, which was my earliest trove

holds yet perfume which doesn't lie nor pretend

crushed now by another who holds not my love.

Pillar of peace

THE PEACE PILLAR

I am the pillar of peace, your hopes

the veil that would hide is not solid

nor the sky brass that there's no way through

or are all men's hearts bound,as with ropes?

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The Pillar of peace is just the promise

the gift itself, all transcendent

don't you see that? what makes men so blind?

the clouds of your minds cause a miss

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Come all you children into the light

but you'll have to crowd together

my rejoicing is roundness, no-one first

this will not be acheived by might

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I pour me down, my peace is for you

why stand you afar off gazing

if only the token carries such hope

what will the reality endue?

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Those who have seen my Pillar of peace

have I not broken through the storm?

I'm calling to you the people come

bathe in my fountain, anger cease