[Bards] Poetry Exercise #8

Marie Adams marie.adams at visionoflove.net
Wed Nov 12 09:23:48 PST 2003


She sees desire in his eyes
And knows it's time to run.
He follows, never stopping till
Her heart by him is won.

She leads him on a merry chase
Through valleys, over hills;
In villages, by palaces
And anywhere she wills.

At last she sees he's tiring,
And slows her pace a bit.
When he throws his arms around her,
She pretends to throw a fit.

He asks if she will be his wife,
She answers not, but thinks.
She only says yes when she sees
His heart's begun to sink.

When they are wed, he boasts how hard
To catch her, was to do.
She laughs and answers, "Nay, in truth
It was I who caught you!"

Lady Serena Dominicci (who didn't mean for this to be so long, but my
pieces have minds of their own sometimes)

On Wed, 5 Nov 2003, Ulf Gunnarsson wrote:

> Well, the last lesson went over like a lead balloon.  If I ever turn
> this into a regular course, I'll have to revise it.
>
> The hunt was an important part of courtly life and, therefore, poetry.
> There was some thought at the time that hunting was the best pursuit of
> a knight when not out righting wrongs, as it kept him out of bed... his
> or others.  Poetry about hunts are a good opportunity for sexual
> innuendo.  The chase, the weapons, the capture... These lend themselves
> well to very indirect allusions of trying to win a woman or woe a
> woman.  They work for other topics, as well.
>
> They are also a good time for comedy, especially when the competent is
> shown to be incompetent by the wily fox or some other "lower life
> form".  Man is supposed to be superior to animals, yet the hunt is a
> good vehicle to follow the classic definition of comedy: tragedy
> reversed.
>
> I will not introduce a new form to follow for this topic.  Choose one
> you are comfortable with, or one you want to experiment with.  Shorter
> lines are bouncier and good for speed or comedy.  Longer lines allow
> more development and are therefore good for illustrating the more
> intellectual concepts.  Generally.  But I'm sure someone here will prove
> me wrong.
>
> Write a piece about a hunt and use one of the two flavors above:  the
> hunt as innuendo for something else, or the hunt as comedic failure.
> Please keep it as medieval as possible and remember that your mother may
> be reading this list.
>
> Ulf Gunnarsson
>
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