Topic: Wanderlust, Rhyme:AB(CC)B

[Mike Baker]

2nd Offering before the slings and arrows of the List Bardique...
The following is intended to be SCA-compatible, not necessarily completely 
in the styles of the SCA "period".

     Wanderer
         Amr ibn Majid al-Bakri al-Amra, A.S. XXXI
         WORK IN PROGRESS, Copyright 1996, Mike C. Baker

   I've been told the tales of bold Charlemagne
   I have heard of the conqueror of Gaul
   And I've friends that speak of the Round Table's peak:
   Yet none of these gave me the Call

   My ears, they have heard of the pilgrim's fair word,
   My tongue echos much that they say,
   But the road 'neath my feet is more achingly sweet
   Than any single fair tournament day.

   Many wonders my eyes in the markets have seen,
   My hands the fair brocades have held,
   Yet none is so soft as the hay in the loft
   When no bed is left among the cell'd

   Ten thousand miracles flung at my feet
   By the vendors in Eastern bazaar:
   More wondrous by far is the view from a spar
   In the rigging of ships black with tar.

   Wind from an alien plain scours my eyes
   Dust-scent and pollen assail 'pon my nose
   My feet in the stirrups, my tongue bathed by syrups,
   The wind Calls forever, my mind does suppose ...

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and, fair cousins, there I am stuck / undecided -- should there be more? 
less? ???

Kihe Blackeagle (the Dreamsinger Bard)  s.k.a. Amr ibn Majid al-Bakri 
al-Amra
     currently residing in Barony of the Steppes, Kingdom of Ansteorra
Mike C. Baker                      mbaker at rapp.com
Any opinions expressed are obviously my own unless explicitly stated 
otherwise!