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    This poem discusses themes of imperfection, the intangibility of perfection, and the duties of knights and paladins. It states that even those at their peak are still imperfect, and that perfection is more of an ideal than a reality. It notes that knights and paladins must enter battles honorably while remembering their duty to save princesses, serve God, their king, and country, and continue seeking wisdom until their death. The poem ends by stating another will take the place of the one riding away at dusk as destinies change and new dreams come.

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    This poem discusses themes of imperfection, the intangibility of perfection, and the duties of knights and paladins. It states that even those at their peak are still imperfect, and that perfection is more of an ideal than a reality. It notes that knights and paladins must enter battles honorably while remembering their duty to save princesses, serve God, their king, and country, and continue seeking wisdom until their death. The poem ends by stating another will take the place of the one riding away at dusk as destinies change and new dreams come.

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    This poem discusses themes of imperfection, the intangibility of perfection, and the duties of knights and paladins. It states that even those at their peak are still imperfect, and that perfection is more of an ideal than a reality. It notes that knights and paladins must enter battles honorably while remembering their duty to save princesses, serve God, their king, and country, and continue seeking wisdom until their death. The poem ends by stating another will take the place of the one riding away at dusk as destinies change and new dreams come.

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    This poem discusses themes of imperfection, the intangibility of perfection, and the duties of knights and paladins. It states that even those at their peak are still imperfect, and that perfection is more of an ideal than a reality. It notes that knights and paladins must enter battles honorably while remembering their duty to save princesses, serve God, their king, and country, and continue seeking wisdom until their death. The poem ends by stating another will take the place of the one riding away at dusk as destinies change and new dreams come.

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    Of blood and steel and star-shine and silk

    As they continue always to seek for me…


    The me that is not me.

    Believe me when I say that any man


    Even at his pinnacle
    Is still imperfection.

    Imperfection is normal and perfection in


    intangible:
    The essence of wish rings, hope smoke and
    dream dust.
    For those of my creed fairy tale endings can
    never be.

    Far better be it to save and cherish a dream


    Than to have to dream to remember.

    Every knight that enters battle ensheathed in


    mental honor
    And encased in burnished metal can’t expect to
    win unscathed.

    A cavalier must never forget the doom of future


    princesses
    And that he must be free to save each one.

    A paladin must always remember


    The will of God
    And the commands of king and country,
    The honor he must seek
    And wisdom he must defend (&vv)
    Of Eros & Chivalry As well as the life long quest
    That never ends until to God his ghost is given.
    When I ride away into the dusk of your
    memories
    You will remember me
    For an everlasting instant.

    Softly the well of your soul trickles


    Like the sorrowful summer rains
    That follow the hot, angry
    Written in college, date unknown.
    Cloudburst cries of desire.

    Your destiny will come in the form of another;


    He will take my place. Wayne O’Conner c. 1989

    So savor your dream swept tumbling visions

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