He sees, <br />Tonight, a vitreous calm sea <br />Tourmaline foams kiss <br />Waves lap furtively <br />Those torpid shores <br />Tide is sibylline <br />A beaming moon <br />Shines in private <br />Signals love to her. <br /> <br />But, <br />She’s lonely <br />Hears nothing <br />Sees nothing <br />Lost and tired <br />Desolate and forlon <br />Confused and dejected <br />What should she do? <br />Await Florentine results <br />Or wait for Virginia’s wines <br />Cross the Thames <br />Or cross the orient’s ocean <br /> <br />Ah! ! ! ! Is this love? <br />Tell her Lord <br />Or is it just object d’art <br />Don’t lie <br />Is it a gimcrack prank <br />Like in a land of dreams <br />She’s swept <br />With confused alarms <br />Of pain and stress <br />Of miserly and darkness of night <br />That animal love <br />In a zoo of monkeys <br />And kangaroos and <br />Rabbits and dolphins <br />And ofcourse with <br />Mosquitos galore <br />Just waiting to sip <br />her purpled blood <br />How far will it be gone <br />It’s a melancholy <br />Long and distant north sea. <br /> <br />Like naked shingles-his words <br />Beaming in the moonlight <br />For he took his vulpine dagger in hand <br />Swirling, blood spattering <br />A warrior in true fashion <br />Like a knight of the round tables <br />Anoints her head, a talisman <br />A piece de resistance, he said <br />So that his beams confine <br />In compliments to hers <br /> <br />ANJALI <br />20-03-2009 <br /> <br /> <br />(This is from a story that I read - a true story of a warrior and a country belle. The girl was in love with a prince whose family did not approve of her- until she meets a warrior-who in true warrior fashion woos her-now shes confused for shes given so much of her life to that prince and she does not know how much more to wait) . <br /> <br />Enjoy yourselves dear friends from poemhunter-its storytelling time<br /><br />ANJALI SINHA<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-knightly-warrior-in-top-500-poems/
