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    Daughter of Kentucky
    Daughter of Kentucky
    Daughter of Kentucky
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    Daughter of Kentucky

    By Michele Wyan

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    This poetry collection contains a mixture of free verse, narrative poems, and traditional poetry in both rhymed and unrhymed formats. It was inspired by the author's Kentucky roots and her Appalachian relatives' lives in the rugged mountains of eastern Kentucky. 

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMichele Wyan
    Release dateOct 23, 2016
    ISBN9781540109309
    Daughter of Kentucky
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    Michele Wyan

    Michele Wyan graduated summa cum laude from the University of Cincinnati where she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Comparative Literature. Her historical romance novel, Night Singer, won the prestigious Golden Heart Award from Romance Writers of America and was published by Kensington Books. Her short story “The New House,” was published in From Shadows and Nightmares, an anthology of ghost stories released from Nightfall Publications. Michele’s work has also been published by Harris Publications, Highlights for Children, and The Mencinnatian. In addition to her fiction, she has sold poetry, word search puzzles, and SEO articles.

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      Daughter of Kentucky - Michele Wyan

      LADY BERCILAK AND SIR GAWAIN

      (an alliterative poem written in bobs & wheels in the tradition of Sir Gawain & the Green Knight)

      A knight fair came to our craggy castle one snowy eve in the season of yule.

      His honey-hued hair swept his broad shoulders,

      And his youthful countenance bore no beard.

      Dark lashes adorned his deeply set green eyes,

      And Zephyrus brought a flush to his chilled cheeks.

      He wore a cape as red as holly berries and a ruby ring.

      My happy husband, hero of my heart, invited this young knight

      To join our family’s yuletide feast and dine on pheasants and fish

      With toasted bread, baked turnips, and tarragoned fowls

      All made sweeter with golden goblets of honeyed mead and

      The songs and strummings of my lord’s bonny minstrels.

      Tempt him, my husband whispered in mine ear while we watched our guests dance.

      "Tempt him with kisses and touches and test his mettle.

      Let us see if his chivalry and courtesy grow cold outside of Arthur’s court."

      I’ll wager, I said, that Arthur’s champion will not respond with aught but chastity.

      I looked at my lord with a laugh and asked if he wanted me to tempt

      our merry knight

      In truth or merely in jocularity and jest.

      Your reputation, he assured me, "will receive no blight.

      No matter how the handsome young lad fares in his test,

      Whether he succumbs, resists, or takes flight."

      So assured, I accepted my lord’s challenge and sought Morgan’s advice.

      Morgan, I knew, had an arrangement with my lord to enchant him.

      She mixed him an elixir of evergreen needles and elderberry leaves

      To give him a holly green hue and hasten an elvin guise.

      He rode into Arthur’s rich court in readiness for sport

      And only our red-clad young knight came to heed his call.

      My lord sought only to serve Morgan’s desire for sating her ire,

      Ire that her brother’s loyal knights knew not her potent magic,

      For it displeased the lady much that her land of birth lauded her not

      While Arthur, son of a murderous and lecherous man,

      Received accolades enough, applause enough, for two.

      In exchange for helping her give Arthur and Gawain grief,

      My lord would get a son, the one gift his gold

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