Chivalry (3)

Chivalry

When the celtic tiger and others were on the prowl dragging their assurance behind them, I wrote a few poems on their progress, or the absence of anything of value, or should that be values! Anyway this was one of them.

A Knight's Tale

With chaptered verse

To course his veins

He quarried out his own demesne

Set off to find the Holy Grail

Then crept along the paper trails

And naked in his stirrup cups

He'd fleece you from the bottom up

And tilt upon the dotted lines

He lived in interesting times

And tiring of such daring deeds

Drew sustenance in other creeds

Such prospects as would tilt your hat

Noblesse oblige no less than that

Allowed such little licence pleased

Himself to charge

Professional fees.

Frank Murphy.

Photo: From Google Images.


Note: Graine Toher is the guest reader at The Knightsbridge Village Hall
in Trim (Boyne Readings) on Thursday the 18th of November.
Her latest novel is "Comings and Goings".