image by Gioele Fazzeri on Pixabay
Duncan Sumerlade
You appear before this court, this parade
Accused of defection, desertion, betrayal, of pursuing your own crusade
Of having disobeyed
In leaving this stockade
Of forming your own brigade
With intention to invade
A land without aggression ever displayed
You claim you would have parlayed
And our own peaceful intentions conveyed
I say you don’t do that with a warband and war-blade
Your atrocious mockery of rules, this masquerade
Mark you as a deep-dyed traitor, a rebel, a renegade.
81 words written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Renegade
crispina kemp 
Wonderful poem Crispina.
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Thank you, Sadje. Quickly penned… I took more time to find the image, and it still wasn’t the one I wanted. Oh well, it works
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It is very fitting.
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Thank you. The visuals are so important!
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I fully agree! Now people are creating their own images using AI or Bing. I haven’t tried that. I prefer real photos
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Nicely done, CK, and that graphic is wow!
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Thank you. The graphic was a compromise. I was thinking more in line of Wellington’s forces in the wars against Napoleon. But it works, I just had to change the name.
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Who knew so many words rhymed with sumerlade! Lol great work!
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There was a man named Sumerlade who (before 1066) had an estate close to where I live!
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