Best Medieval Poems

Miniver Cheevy, child of scorn,
Grew lean while he assailed the seasons;
He wept that he was ever born,
And he had reasons.
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Candle light oscillating
Luxing like amoeba
Silenced to actuate
Jus Primae Noctis
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At four o'clock
in the gun-metal blue dark
we hear the first crow of the first cock
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A youth in apparel that glittered
Went to walk in a grim forest.
There he met an assassin
Attired all in garb of old days;
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SINGING my days,
Singing the great achievements of the present,
Singing the strong, light works of engineers,
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Primitive

I ate my fill of a whale that died
And stranded after a month at sea. . . .
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PROUD music of the storm!
Blast that careers so free, whistling across the prairies!
Strong hum of forest tree-tops! Wind of the mountains!
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Today, because I couldn't find the shortcut through,
I had to walk this town's entire inner
perimeter to find
where the medieval walls break open
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Like medieval knights
Armor clad, in fields battle
To reap victory
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.
crimson nights
crimson rains
medieval trees
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A youth in apparel that glittered
Went to walk in a grim forest.
There he met an assassin
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Lay these words into the dead man's grave
next to the almonds and black cherries---
tiny skulls and flowering blood-drops, eyes,
and Thou, O bitterness that pillows his head.
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In the medieval towns there was an increase in people
But if one was in search of a doctor
One had to go to the ghetto and Europe envied Juda.
Dark roads of the ghetto, but bright ways of work!
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Anghiari is medieval, a sleeve sloping down
A steep hill, suddenly sweeping out
To the edge of a cliff, and dwindling.
But far up the mountain, behind the town,
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POEM
I saw a shoe a' sailing
a' sailing on the sea
The fairies were it a' using
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Let not our town be large, remembering
That little Athens was the Muses' home,
That Oxford rules the heart of London still,
That Florence gave the Renaissance to Rome.
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Masks prose without links


When last I visited India almost a decade ago
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‘ Masculine Majesty … ’
Medieval Lines # 2

Lo’ and Behold … Thy Masculine Majesty
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Once I had this fanciful idea of recording
the silence in each great cathedral
and marketing these...
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That night, in a strange place
I was like a fly
Circling around a street lamp
Reeling…Reeling!
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(dedicated to Sakura Tomoko, a poet friend at poemhunter)

art
form
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Borinage was not a place of art or pictures.
But Vincent who was gifted with an artistic eye
And a perception beyond the ordinary.
For him, Borinage appeared beautiful, picturesque,
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I.
Oft have I seen at some cathedral door
A laborer, pausing in the dust and heat,
Lay down his burden, and with reverent feet
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We are, the poetic society, like nature
It's growing up, growing old
from the ancient platform to medieval,
modern to postmodern
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the simple account
– love ran out
no-longer sustained by
medieval bracelets charmed
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THE HISTORY OF
MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY
IN VERSE
BY
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A Word about Vermillion*

The Sioux Falls (SD) Argus Leader
Often presents our fair city
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I hear that the Commune di Padova has an exhibition of master-
pieces from Giotto to Mantegna. Giotto is the master of angels, and
Mantegna is the master of the dead Christ, one of the few human
beings who seems to have understood that Christ did indeed come
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Love symbol=Tajmahal
Monday,17th January 2022
If Tajmahal has worldwide recognition
then, it can be called most pride possession
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We see roaring monsters
both in bicameral chamber cage
of the Philippine congress
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It is a tall order to look the history of these institutions and their impact historically and currently on this country. But let's have a go nonetheless.

Let's start with first principles with some basic history and definitions:
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THE HISTORY OF
MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY
IN VERSE
BY
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From the jagged summit of the mount
Looking down, I see a chasm near
Now I have to climb down this cliff
Each slope n' ridge with utmost care
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Sing a song of Tajmahal
a fine rhyme or a ghazal

Of this landmark for lovers
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Ever thought of winning the heart
By putting a dagger on the chest?
- Should be a unique experiment
Moulded in medieval adventurism
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'Ouch Pisa, shame of people'
Dante

The scholar Muratori loved the mankind as well as the simple laws and wrote that
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(In continuation to my 'Introduction To Medieval
Philosophy'- on page no.2, sl. no.38.)
* PART- I *
ADVENT OF CHRISTIANITY:
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Not in our public parks, for private gain.
This centuries-old precursor of all dramas
That lured babes in old Italy and Spain
To plague for pence their medieval mamas.
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If Tajmahal has worldwide recognition
then, it can be called most pride possession
a symbol of love
and everybody believes, in its sanctity
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Don’t say you love me and use it as a lever
A lever to use in a medieval way
Extracting confessions for sins not committed
Then applying more pressure so you get your way
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A -BRI'S INTRODUCTORY POEM:

It's mid-September and the pressure is mounting,
‘cause I KNOW, on me, Bri, you ALL are still counting to place joy, nay, rapture amidst your dull drudgery,
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When I have had ‘bad words' with the one I dearly Love,
thoughts of loneliness may {at my injured mind} Shove,
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It is the time for you dear father,
We weak up early leaving fear.
This moment Nature rains nectar,
In world dram you are one director.
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(A medieval Spanish legend slanderously setting forth the utter unreason of woman.)
ROMAQUIA sat and wept her
Lace mantilla full of tears.
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(Note from writers: the following is an extracted 'off the cuff ' writing played out on Forum on 22/2/09) . EP: Emancipation Planz and HN: Herbert Nehrlich

EP:
Tonight… (I not sit on the fence… I put up a signal.. want to play…? ? ?)
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.
O' poets switch off today all senses but one
as you enter the arena of aroma
As I nose out the world's perfumes
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Living saints seem to be an endangered species
though nobody complains

so how about the ‘sustainable’ bit?
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Epochal Bells
I
In synagogues of cedar hills
weathered shepherds prayed
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Now before moving on to the next four lives, lets pause a bit to examine the Egyptian experience-a bit more in terms of its impact upon me.
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words chase me
i escape to paper
paper travels again
to the sun field
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(**In continuation to Medieval Philosophy after St Augustine
Part -III, on page 3)

PRELUDE TO SCHOLASTICISM
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(Loosely) Medieval Lines # 3

To Knight … Tonight
Wherever You Are
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So long human nature
Holds key to future
You shall not be peace
Life shall never be at ease
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I see rhythm in deep breath
How that comes true at the time of death?
Chest expands and contracts with uneasiness
All parts are becoming dead with tiredness
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(In continuation from end of Part -I, 'Advent of Christianity'
on page 4, sl. no..68.)

* PART – II *
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Nature’s seams of seasons en plein air sur terre
orbit of harmony en plain air sur terre

Primavera, our eyes rise for your coming
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For a long time unhappy
with my man,
I blamed men,
blamed marriage, blamed
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It's not money that makes you evil
But the love of it that's wrong
Way back during times primeval
Lucifer became headstrong
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Some contorted shape
lost in checkered
light and dark I stay.
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Let me introduce Geoffrey Chaucer
Medieval English poet

He is considered the most important author
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They were burned.
Long before the Salem ones.
In Hartford, Connecticut,
This was done.
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I would like to re-submit this exhaustive list of terms associated with poetry and hope that members will make use of the list to understand different kinds of poetry in a better way.
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O' my helpless illuminating bulb
So cruelly I fixed you in that bracket on the wall! !
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This will be a night in deep snow
which has the power to muffle steps
in deep shadow transforming
bodies to two puddles of darkness
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(**Continued from 'Medieval Philosophy&Scholasticism'-
on page no.3)

ST THOMAS AQUINAS (1225-1274) :
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Have we gone to primary and medieval level?
Is there anything left for us to reveal?
Why have we become so intolerant towards womenfolk?
Why do we have rape.torture and murders in our stock?
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It stands so proud,
majestic, weighed down
uplifted by
its own history.
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It's like washing-cleaning a skunk
If mind its murky muck retains,
A fish remains in water dunk,
Her stink still as ever remains.
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Geoffrey Chaucer: (2)

This is the sequel of Introducing Geoffrey Chaucer, medieval English poet
He was an exceptionally gifted author and poet, Chaucer had a busy public life as a soldier, courtier, diplomat, and civil servant, serving a variety of public functions.
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When the Earthquake struck Haiti, Pat Robertson
the evangelical Christian made an offensive assertion
saying on a broadcast 'Haiti signed a pact with the devil'
shame on you Pat, you've reached the medieval level.
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A sheet of paper carried on a summer breeze
tumbled passed me. Where it settled,
on a park lawn lined with elm trees,
revealed a dump site of sheets, all
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She and the fire
fight adjectives. Their concreteness

deflects reification
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The German chemist, name was Runge, did discover
what is today the recreation drug of note.
He had been burdened by a rather frigid lover
and any chances of pizzazz were quite remote.
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Ashoka the great* did not find joy
The war had ended with peace to enjoy
The boundaries were annexed and secured
The enemy was fully annihilated and routed
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(dedicated to Ms. Mitsuko Uchida, a talented pianist)

picturesque valleys
eerie landscapes
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That night, in a dream,
I found myself on a hill's skull
overlooking a quiet, dimly remembered, hamlet
hemmed by untrod expanse of sprightly vegetation
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"Whenever you meet a contradiction
You must make a fine distinction."
No two conflicting statements can be true!
The Medieval Scholastics made this observation.
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PLATO’S CAVE ALLEGORY
(I)
In his seventh book of the famous ‘Republic’,
Plato narrates his cave allegory!
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I have possibly come across
Many religions
And feel at loss
About the path they chosen
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Medieval art heritage

Whole of the world knows
About how love story revolves
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On a sunny day, with no clouds in sight,
the crowd was gathered, packed tight-
ly in the city's Central Square.
At one spot they all did stare …..,
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Troubled time O Raheem,
Roiled has gotten my calm,
If truthful, world nor dream,
In falsehood there's no Raam!
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~ Mellifluent Universe is Waiting Still! ~
Ms. Nivedita
UK
3 August 2010
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Warriors of medieval time
Sunday,18th July 2021

No, our warriors were different
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Jester and Justine were two lovely friends.
Jester was a singer and Justine a dancer,
they both performed together in a theater.
they got photographed themselves in a photo shop.
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What is NIGHT? Is it primarily a physical fact or a state of being?
From my perspective as the writer of these poems, Night is indeed primarily a state of being, conditioned by our human psychology with
its complex interplay of emotion and reason and the equally complex interplay of Self and World. Symbolist writers and artists of the late 19th century used the term "soul-state, " which expresses my understanding of the Interior World. It suggests the experience of
NIGHT is limitless, dimensions of time and space collapse before it, and night become porous, offering many points of entry and exit to and from its Mystery.
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My Stella
My abode
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
You are my homeless home,
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A northern town of character
I bravely left, to southward roam;
To relocate my family
In Dunster, my adopted home.
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Hang them, hang them till death
Enraged people shouted with full breath
Thousands have gathered on road to demonstrate
Their ire against the atrocities on women to relate
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I went down yesterday
to fix a leak in my tire. Off Bridge street
there's a place 95 cents
flats fixed,
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To stand where Scottish Jacobites fought and died. To feel the centuries of history, on medieval castle walls. To explore the ancient Abbeys of the past in the tranquility of the lush countryside. To see bluebells
bloom in aspects of spring, dragonflies in the heat of summer, watching barnacle geese fly in winter overland and sea, Scotlands gifts for all to see.
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From purity of time arrives a baby.
Sprinkles a glow on every face,
Often crying and smiling with gums,
Slowly comes around creeping.
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The nights were long and cold and bittersweet,
And he made a song for the hell of it.
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spin docters with medieval dogma,
Antiquated answers from a babylonia
fool, words that melt just like ice cream,
and a funny moment filled with deceat
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I can hear the children now,
competing with the songs
and lullabies of happiness,
of friendly frigate birds
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The 64 squares on a chessboard
match the tally of my years –
some passed in red,
others in black -
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I.
The figures are evenly spaced like a police line-up,
unaware they will indeed be on trial
as they trudge towards a brighter tomorrow.
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Come and visit my back yard.
A bit on the wild side.
Linger and goggle long and hard.
Snatch a bit of nature’s side.
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At the age of fifteen she entered a married Life
Soon to prove capable and become responsible wife
Husband passed away at an early age
She became widow and it became difficult to manage
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You will not have an answer
For prolonged war
Indiscriminate firing
And daily killing
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