Greetings from the Poeta!

Information on upcoming competitions (including the Known World Poetic Challenge at Pennsic) can be found at the Poeta website (http://poeta.atlantia.sca.org). Also check it out for monthly updates of featured poets around the kingdom! Meanwhile, I give you here two poems for the price of one: a 14th c. Machaut-style ballade and its Chaucerian translation.

Dame sans per, a vos mi cuer je doing,
Mais de mi amor prenez a doter
Com pleur et dement que ma soffrance loing.
Porquoi ne vos clamez a me voler?
Sol demeur, atendrant a l’apeler
Que n’estrat sonné, por l’homme n’at la joi
De m’Amor, cui est assis lez del roi.

Makeles lady, my herte ich giue yoo,
Thogh my loue euer doubtyng are ye stylle,
As ich do wepe and playne of my grete woo.
Wherefor do ye ne confesse of yowr wylle?
Alone ich am, redy for calle that nylle
Be mad, as man hath of joy ne such thynge
The Louely Dame who sitteth by the kynge.

In service,
Olivier de Bayonne

Additional online notes: Please take a look at the offering from the current Featured Poet (for July 2005), Lady Teleri Barod.

I am also happily accepting submissions for pieces to include on the 'Atlantian Bardic Poetry' aspect of the site - any piece of poetry, song, or story by an Atlantian author is welcome. The works are divided up by author through geographical region.

Thank you!

Last modified July 8, 2005. Content suggestions to Lord Olivier de Bayonne