QUEEN ISABELLA Danse Macabre “Demanding Justice” Sonnet Chapters I--XIV Haiku Sonnets

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QUEEN ISABELLA

Danse Macabre

“Demanding Justice”

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Sonnet Chapters

I--XIV

Haiku Sonnets

J. Beck

2017

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QUEEN ISABELLA

DANSE MACABRE

“Demanding Justice”

Sonnet Chapters

I-XIV

Haiku Sonnets:

I: “Demanding Justice”

I A Queen Devoted to her King

II The Nobles Demand Justice

III The King Rebukes

IV “Give Me War”

V The King Conceives His Revenge

VI The Worm Turns from Fear to Hate

VII Edward Alone in His War Tent

VIII The Queen Discovers Longshanks’ Journals

IX The King Grieves Cornwall

X The Unknown Longshanks’ Journals

XI “A Powerful King”

XII The Ghost of Longshanks

XIII Ruling England

XIV The Queen Pitches Mock Battle

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(“Demanding Justice”)

I:I

(A Queen Devoted to her King)

I:1
Queen Isabella
Is escorted by the King
Edward the Second

I:2
Her Longshanks husband
For whom she sincerely loved
With all of her heart

I:3
All of her being
An unconditional love
Of deep convictions

I:4
Of True devotion
As her husband King Edward’s
Most humble servant

I:5
As Englands’ crowned Queen
Chosen by Almighty God
To be the King’s Queen

I:6
Queen Isabella
Would live & die for her King
She will kill for him

I:7
In the name of God
To fullfill the Divine Will
Of God Almighty

I:8
Anyone or thing
Not for the King Edward was
A threat against him

I:9
A threat against God
Both One in the same in Queen
Isabella’s mind

I:10
There were contentions
In need of alterations
To minumize threats

I:11
Against King Edward
Against God Almighty’s Will
For all of England

I:12
Queen Isabella
Was determined to fullfill
God’s Will for her King

I:13
For her Lion King
Husband Edward the Second
The late Longshanks’ son

I:14
Queen Isabella
Was wise beyond her years as
Her father’s daughter.

I:II

(The Nobles’ Demand Justice)

II:1

“I Demand Justice!”
YOU.
Are DEMANDING Justice?
You come here & stand

II:2
Before your KING’S Court
To DEMAND JUSTICE?
YOU are
DEMANDING Justice

II:3
& Of whom
Do you
Demand this
SO-CALLED Justice?
JUSTICE?
What’s Justice?

II:4
Can someone tell me?
Will someone answer me that?
Answer YOUR King THAT!

II:5
CAN SOMEONE TELL ME?
YOUR KING HAS ASKED A QUESTION!
WHAT is this JUSTICE

II:6
That is DEMANDED.
Your KING
has asked two questions
ARE there NO answers?

II:7
HERE is another–
Why come here now to your KING ?
Silence stilled the court

II:8
Queen Isabella
Was delighted in her King
When he spoke as one

II:9
You. DEMAND JUSTICE.
Who are YOU to DEMAND That?
WHO are YOU to COME

II:10
HERE?
Before YOUR KING
To DEMAND Justice
From ME?
Demanding YOUR King?

II:11
WANTS Justice–
He does.
I STAND corrected–DEMANDS!
HE DEMANDS Justice.

II:12
He has come to this place
He’s come here to his King’s COURT
DEMMANDING JUSTICE!

II:13
Queen Isabella
Remained silently sitting
As a proud Queen should

II:14
As her Lion King’s
Roar rang out through the court of
Demanding Nobles.

I:III

(The King Rebukes)

III:1
The King of England
Edward Longshanks II
Sat tall on his throne

III:2
Beside his crowned Queen
Before standing to his feet
“YOU.”
“Lesser Mortals”

III:3
Come here to YOUR King
Demanding Justice from WHOM?
Who shall determine

III:4
What this Justice is?
For whom does it Justify?
Does it JUSTIFY

III:5
The GOD of England?
Does it Justify the King?
Justify England?

III:6
For WHOM does it serve?
Is it NOT in service to
Your King
As to GOD?

III:7
Have YOU prayed to GOD?
Seeking His Wisdom in this
Matter of Justice.

III:8
SO is this Justice?
You are demanding
The Will
Of ALMIGHTY GOD?

III:9
Or the will of men?
The will of fearful men
Or
That of greedy men?

III:10
The two are one in
The same-
-Fear & Greed
LACKING!
In the Faith of God

III:11
The remorse of the
Greedy & fearful is LACK
They shall lack in the

III:12
Plentiful goodness
Of God that provides for US
Who TRULY Believe.

III:13
For Faith’s the substance
Of THINGS hoped for with the
Evidence UnSeen.

III:14
I say unto YOU
HAVE FAITH in Englands’ GOD
&
HAVE Faith in YOUR KING.

I:IV

(“Give Me War”)

IV:1
The King of England
Edward Longshanks II
Stood tall in his boots

IV:2
“IT’S– Justice you want?”
So IT’S.
Justice–YOU shall have.
YOU–JUST needed ASK!

IV:3
NO need to DEMAND.
AM I NOT KING?
“GIVE ME WAR!”
King Edward declared

IV:4
The Lion King ROARED
Queen Isabella stood up
As the still silence

IV:5
Filled the Vaulted Court
With cheers of Praise for their King
Who escorted his

IV:6
Queen Isabella
Slowly through the pressing crowd
Of cheering nobles

IV:7
Skirmishing over
The Declaration of WAR!
By their English King

IV:8
What does the King mean?
That England’s going to war?
He calls that Justice?

IV:9
Whose Justice is it?
What about compensations
For lost damages?

IV:10
We’ll suffer greater
Losses after engaging
In war with the SCOTS

IV:11
Where will the funds be
To finance a war against
The Scottish Rebels?

IV:12
This isn’t Justice
This is the King’s Dirty trick
Avoiding Justice.

IV:13
The King of England
Edward Longshanks II
Concieved that moment

IV:14
That perhaps Justice
Would be well served revenging
Cornwall’s execution.

I:V

(The King Conceives His Revenge)

V:1
News came from Stirling
Edward Bruce sacked the castle
Demanding that the

V:2
English abandon
Their Scottish stronghold
At the North border

V:3
Imaginary
Line dividing North & South
Scotland from England

V:4
King Edward would give
The Barons & Nobles the
Justice they wanted

V:5
Justice they deserved
He would pitch this battle to
Keep Stirling Castle

V:6
If they Prevailed
All would richly gain but if
Not all would suffer

V:7
The King hoped for both
To win Stirling Castle back
& To cause the loss

V:8
& Suffering for the
Baron Ordainers who had
Executed Cornwall

V:9
The King Edward had
Conceived at that moment he
Could get a measure

V:10
Of Justice against
The very men demanding it
In Cornwall’s revenge

V:11
Reaching the Barons
From his secret resting place
By the King’s own hand

V:12
There shall be Justice
In this Demanding matter
Some Longshanks’ Justice!

V:13
The King Edward could
Care less about the Rebels
Or Stirling Castle

V:14
Nor the Barons that
Took the Scottish lands in their
Service to Longshanks.

I:VI

(The Worm Turns from Fear to Hate)

VI:1
The Scottish Rebels
Were a needling thorn in
The Lion King’s Claw

VI:2
The Noble Barons
Were as pesky flies seeking
More Dung for themselves

VI:3
Perhaps the two could
Eliminate the other
On the Battle Field

VI:4
In the service to
God & in the service to
The King & England

VI:5
Queen Isabella
Was wise beyond her years as
Her father’s daughter

VI:6
Preceiving by the
Means of deduction that her
King husband Edward

VI:7
Was playing their game
With the cards they dealt him
Holding the Trump card

VI:8
The King was ALL in
They were playing into the
King’s Royal Flush hand

VI:9
There were risk in it
Could be back-lashing involved
The King could care less

VI:10
Queen Isabella
Became greatly aroused
Inside of herself

VI:11
When her Lion King
Husband Edward the Second
Ruled as a Longshanks

VI:12
Queen Isabella
Seen the Worm inside the King
Turn from Fear to Hate

VI:13
King Edward stood up
As the Roaring Lion King
With his Coat of Arms

VI:14
“Causalties of War
Will determine the Victor–
To WHOM go the Spoils.”

I:VII

(Edward Alone in His War Tent)

VII:1
The King of England
Edward Longshanks II
Would not sleep that night

VII:2
Antisapating
The Battle of Bannockburn
For Stirling Castle

VII:3
Shortly after the dawn
Against the Scottish Rebels
Uprise in the North

VII:4
As acts of treason
Against England & the King
Being one the same

VII:5
The rebel leaders
Robert Bruce & Edward Bruce
Being two brothers

VII:6
Had brought this Wrath down
Upon Scotland & themslves
Raiding the borders

VII:7
The Barons & their
Nobles were unable to
Combat these rebels

VII:8
So they blame the King
For what they themselves failed to
Accomplish against

VII:9
The Scottish rebels
Demanding the King’s Justice
With compensation

VII:10
For which the King gave
In a War Declaration
Against the rebels

VII:11
“Take back what was Your’s:
As Caesar
Came
Saw & Took
So shall all of you.”

VII:12
You shall go to war
& fight
You shall kill & steal
& destroy the Scots

VII:13
In the name of God
England shall prevail over
All their enemies

VII:14
Dare not to demand
The King of England Edward
Longshanks for Justice.

I:VIII

(The Queen Discovers Longshanks’ Journals)

VIII:1
Queen Isabella
Preceived the hidden motives
Her King husband had

VIII:2
From reading all of
The dusty-forgotten journals
Left by the late King

VIII:3
Locked away in the
Longshanks’ Royal Library
Inside the War Room

VIII:4
Queen Isabella
Read all the Longshanks’ journals
Shortly after her

VIII:5
Arrivial from France
After being wedded &
Crowned as Englands’ Queen

VIII:6
Queen Isabella
Accidently discovered
The envaluable

VIII:7
Journals written in
The late King Longshanks’ own hand
Proved greatly useful

VIII:8
To the Princess Queen
To understand the Customs
Of English Lands

VIII:9
To understand her King
Husband Edward II
To understand how

VIII:10
A King must Rule in
A perilous World & to
Remain in Power

VIII:11
Over the Commons
Over the Noble Barons
Over All England

VIII:12
Over All Europe
Respect came to a King by
Fearing not loving

VIII:13
Queen Isabella
Would use this new-found knowledge
To aid & assist

VIII:14
The King as his Queen
Queen Isabella would not
Fail her King husband.

I:IX

(The King Grieves Cornwall)

IX:1
The King of England
Edward Longshanks II’s
Black mood had left him

IX:2
Grieving the death of
His Favorite–Earl of Cornwall
Sir Piers Gaveston

IX:3
Executed by the
Noble Ordainer Barons
Falsely accusing

IX:4
Cornwall of treason
Taking him unlawfully
Denying a trial

IX:5
Executed by
Two Welsh mercenaries’ swords
Beheading Cornwall

IX:6
The Ghost of Cornwall
Constantly haunted the King
Demanding Revenge

IX:7
Demanding Justice
Against those responsible
For murdering him

IX:8
It had been two years
In such time King Edward &
Queen Isabella

IX:9
Had consummated
Their Royal marriage prior
To Cornwall’s demize

IX:10
Resulting in the
Conceiption & birth of a
Healthy first-born son

IX:11
Prince Edward III
Being made Earl of Chester
Fullfilling the King

IX:12
& Queen Isabella’s Duty
Providing England with a
Legiamate heir

IX:13
To preserve the throne
& crown of England by the
Long-standing Longshanks

IX:14
The Execution
Of Cornwall was not in vain
The King sought his Queen.

I:X

(The Unknown Longshanks’ Journals)

X:1
The Ghost of Longshanks
Revealed itself to the young
Queen Isabella

X:2
As the Queen read from
His lost forgotten journals
In complete secret

X:3
Queen Isabella
Never revealed the source of
Her discoveries

X:4
Hoading the Knowledge
That produced envaluable
Insights into the

X:5
Present day context
For which she had found herself
Being Englands’ Queen

X:6
Gaining wisdom that
Was imparted unto her
From the late Longshanks’

X:7
Life experiences
As the most powerful King
To Rule in the World

X:8
The journals explained
The princples of Ruling
A country is as

X:9
Strong & as feared as
The King sitting on the throne
If the King is weak

X:10
So are his subjects
From the Noble Barons to
Commons & servants

X:11
A Powerful King
Must put the fear of God in
His own subjects as

X:12
The Crown’s enemeies
Whether they’re friend or foe in
England or abroad

X:13
A Powerful King
Must have steadfast convictions
Inside of themselves

X:14
A Powerful King
Must never show emotions
Of Love nor of Fear

LATE

KING OF ENGLAND

EDWARD LONGSHANKS

THE FIRST

I:XI

(“A Powerful King”)

XI:1
“A Powerful King”
Is full of God’s Rightous Hate
The Queen is God’s Love

XI:2
A King of Love will
Loose the head off his shoulders
But a hated King

XI:3
Will Rule a lifetime
Conquering his enemeies
Expand his Kingdom

XI:4
Increase the wealth
To provide & protect the
Interest of England

XI:5
There’s no security
In Peace & Love but in the
Hate of a strong King

XI:6
A powerful King
Knows who his enemeies are
In & out of court

XI:7
Noble or Common
Near & far–Keeping friends close
Enemeies closer

XI:8
Keeping their guard up
Against being beguiled &
Being played the Fool

XI:9
A powerful King
Demands respect out of fear
By his friends & foes

XI:10
A powerful King
Lives in antisapation
& never surprised

XI:11
The hearts of men are
Evil in their fallen state
There’s no good in them

XI:12
Besides that which they
Receive from God by His Son
For whom He’s given

XI:13
A powerful King
Has no use in those weak souls
That are in his charge

XI:14
They would be better
Serving God in Heaven then
Their King here on Earth.

I:XII

(The Ghost of Longshanks)

XII:1
The Ghost of Longshanks
Would reveal himself unto
Queen Isabella

XII:2
Secretly reading
From the dusty forgotten
Journals of Longshanks

XII:3
For countless hours
When her Queen Duties allowed
Behind guard locked doors

XII:4
All that was known was
She was reading in private
But not what she read

XII:5
It was a known fact
That the young beautiful Queen
Isabella was

XII:6
Well read & learnt
From the Holy scriptures &
From the Ancient text

XII:7
Available to
Queen Isabella in that
Present modern world

XII:8
Queen Isabella
Locked herself away inside
The King’s War-chamber

XII:9
With map painted walls
& black & white chromatic
Marble gridded floors

XII:10
King Edward Longshanks
Would sit in the center of
The entire world

XII:11
In the middle of
The round vaulted rotunda
With his large chess-board

XII:12
Where he would play out
His wars against his own Wit
He had wooden props

XII:13
To symbolize ships
Legions of infantry &
Calvery horses

XII:14
The walls came alive
As Queen Isabella read
From Longshanks’ journals.

I:XIII

(Ruling England)

XIII:1
Queen Isabella
Read how the Late Longshanks King
Ruled over England

XIII:2
Ruling for England
“It’s a King’s state of being
& sound mind that keeps a

XIII:3
King upon the throne.”
The late King Longshanks believed
That he ruled the World

XIII:4
While allowing the
Kingdoms of Kings & Princes
To believe they were

XIII:5
The late Longshanks King
Divided kingdoms into
Three parts, Government

XIII:6
To establish &
Enforce laws for civil rest
Enterprise to

XIII:7
To create wealth
For individuals to pay
Tax to finance wars

XIII:8
Longshanks believed in
Demanding high taxes to
Finance his kingdom’s

XIII:9
Ambitionous conquest
Yoking Englands’ commerence
& government to

XIII:10
The King’s war-machine
Giving all of England a
Common purpose of

XIII:11
Making England great
& prosperious in the world
As well as it’s King

XIII:12
Thirdly the Church
To appease God Almighty
& convict sinners

XIII:13
A King’s Trinity
Being the right hand of God
In Heaven on Earth

XIII:14
Queen Isabella’s
Earnest intentions for her
King husband Edward.

I:XIV

(The Queen Pitches Mock Battle)

XIV:1
Queen Isabella
Learnt the Princples of War
From Longshanks journals

XIV:2
Queen Isabella
Pitched a Mock Battle in the
Secret war chamber

XIV:3
Using the late King
Longshanks’ wooden props on a
Gridded table top

XIV:4
By the assistance
Of old hand-drawn map parchments
Queen Isabella

XIV:5
Was capable of
Creating a mock battle
Field of Bannockburn

XIV:6
Using blue ribbon
To symbolize Bannockburn
Brook & River Forth

XIV:7
Then she established
The placements of the two towns
Being separated

XIV:8
By the river &
The tribitory between
Bannuckburn village

XIV:9
& Stirling village
At the Northern border-line
Dividing the two

XIV:10
Kingdoms inside of
The one disputed country
Of the English throne

XIV:11
Laying claim to all
In the rich-furitle lands of
The Southern portion

XIV:12
& The Rebel Scots
Of the Northern Highlands that
Sought Independence

XIV:13
From the English Crown
When Robert the Bruce laid claim
To the Scottish throne

XIV:14
That same night before
The Battle of Bannockburn
The King & Queen mit:

(TO BE CONTINUED)

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THE

KING & QUEEN

ENGLAND

(1307--1327)

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TABLE OF CONTENTS:

I-XIV Sonnet Chapters

I: “Demanding Justice”
II: “In the King’s First Year”
III: “In the Queen’s First Year”
IV: “A Game of Chess”
V: “A Mockery”
VI: “Unknown Truthes are Revealed”
VII: “A New Day in a New World”
VIII: “A Prince is Born”
IX: “No Closure”
X: “The King’s Reckoning”
XI: “King Edward’s Final Words:”
XII: “Is There No Justice?”
XIII: “The Final Act”
XIV: “The Ghost of Edward”

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