NaPoWriMo day fourteen

who attended
all that brilliant company
had the misfortune
of the distant future
 
on the surface
knowledge paused
 
observing the legend
may have acquired
some question
 
the chief evidence
significant
 
in all such tales
inventing incident
 
others contended later,
theory based on contract
 
allowed to be
 
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It may be granted
that she was beautiful,
the accessories she wore
the best: garter, silk, jewel.
In full knowledge
he paused.
The lady in question
had  entered a tournament
in which delights
and Edward’s passion
was the work of writers.
Still, others contended
that the story
was based on beauty.
 
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it happened
during the dancing.
Knowing
to whom I belonged
feeling paused
to lay at his feet.
Honi soit qui mal y pense
[Evil to him who evil thinks]
said in the hearing of all.
The best historians
have title and motto:
question, fact, idea.
Who tells the story
of identity?
Some said it was
obviously property;
no one could think ill of
the story
married to a great beauty.