three of my 2013 poems written on theme of life of king Arthur
I is a retelling of the lust of
Uther for Igraine
II is the
story of Merlin beguiled by
Nimue
III is the death of Arthur
I
Merlin fetches a sea
ran spell to turn King Uther
leaving out one word of nine
the lusty king is mistaken
For
rather than
by
the lady
timbre haired ice
cream girl
the lady Igraine
Ygerna
Both women now live in the castle to the confusion of her
lousy man of a husband
Merlin comes to the
rescue with cloak and vapour
cracks a cage to catch hawk feathers
stumbles headfirst
into a midden
counts himself under a mire
What a fine lady pale
and trembling
rope arches to a
casement
is that the shriek of
a gull?
II
Trees hide temple and given altar
Bride my foolish brother
my foolish sister
Merlin and his queen lady
she says thy spells
Seeks your secrets
Hide the light and
the steps to his old Earth
Hand on lake
Let me touch the ice
Darkling grail
III
Wolves and isolation crying to the pity
The day of his death
Move out of sounds
way
Thin walls to the fortress and the moat
A mid coloured banner
bends in the rain
Dross frost of pin
flowers
Ancient bleak of wheat
No body say doomsday
Dead in the stink of weird Avalon
The champion is dead
Dead
The tide throws out the grave
Award his armour
Scale turned to rack insects
Is that
the shriek of a Gull Mark Littler
2013
Darkening Grail
Mark littler 2013
Wolves and isolation Mark
Littler 2013
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