{"id":1354,"date":"2015-05-10T12:20:24","date_gmt":"2015-05-10T20:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/?p=1354"},"modified":"2015-05-11T15:41:35","modified_gmt":"2015-05-11T23:41:35","slug":"the-legend-of-robin-hood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/?p=1354","title":{"rendered":"The Legend Of Robin Hood"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Legend Of Robin Hood<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Robin Hood was a sly little fellow.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

He would rob from the rich & give to the poor.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

His band of \u2018merry men\u2019 were pretty mellow.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

He became a thief to even the score.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Sherriff was oppressing the peons.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Taxing them way beyond reason.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

King Richard had been gone for eons.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

He would be back in due season.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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He would not stand for such oppression.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Sherriff would get his neck stretched.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Meantime, Robin Hood took possession<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

of all the money the Sherriff had fetched.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Robin had one thing going for him.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

It was his skill with a longbow.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

He could shoot a bow like Cupid\u2019s twin.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

His long shots had never gone low.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Sherriff wanted Robin\u2019s head.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

He couldn\u2019t roust him from Sherwood Forrest.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

So, he held a contest, instead.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The best archer would win, of course.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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There was a big cash prize offered.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Robin couldn\u2019t resist such a competition.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The money was taken from the tax coffers.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Robin wanted to win to make redemption.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Robin disguised himself as a common beggar.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

He registered for the contest. He had a bow.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The contest started and there were wagers.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The final two would shoot a longbow.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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It was the Sherriff\u2019s best archer against<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

the strange beggar, who was very good.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The archer hit dead center & kissed his wench.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The beggar\u2019s arrow split the archer\u2019s wood.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Such a shot, no one had ever seen.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

To split another\u2019s arrow at such a distance,<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

could only mean the beggar wasn\u2019t who he seemed.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

He, grabbed the prize & avoided resistance.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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All realized it was Robin Hood.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

He threw the prize money to the poor.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Sherriff was doing all he could.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Yet, Robin made it out the door<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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He got away and the Sherriff looked the fool.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Robin & his men were hero\u2019s of the poor.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Sherriff planned things that were really cruel.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Before long King Richard returned from the war.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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He was informed of the total situation.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Sherriff was arrested and hung.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Robin was pardoned \u00a0with elation.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Maid Marion & Robin became as one.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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So ends my prose of Robin Hood.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

True or legends, he is still a hero.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

One who goes around doing good.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Most people think of him as real.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

—————————————–R. W. Johnson—–(2015)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Legend Of Robin Hood Robin Hood was a sly little fellow. He would rob from the rich & give to the poor. His band of \u2018merry men\u2019 were pretty mellow. He became a thief to even the score. \u00a0 The Sherriff was oppressing the peons. Taxing them way beyond reason. King Richard had … Continue reading The Legend Of Robin Hood<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,16,8,3,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fantasy","category-free-bird-poetry","category-medieval","category-nostalgia","category-random"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1354"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1360,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354\/revisions\/1360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}