Best Rondeau Poems
Below are the all-time best Rondeau poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of rondeau poems written by PoetrySoup members
The Hands of Time-RondeauThe Hands of Time
The hands of time stand eerie still
Where hearts chamber a cagey chill,
And whispers warn of shadows deep
With eyes that strain as shower’s...
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Categories:
destiny, sleep, time,
Form:
Rondeau
Past the Graveyard: RondeauPast the graveyard deep in snow
where icicles from boughs hang low
one woman at a headstone weeps
as memories in warmth she keeps,
all dressed in black like...
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Categories:
death, sad love, winter,
Form:
Rondeau
Travel Light - a Goodnight Lullaby
Travel light, my dear; softly go
beyond the night’s each black shadow
to another plane. Out of sight
exists a realm of such delight
you may find relief from...
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Categories:
dream, Lullaby,
Form:
Rondeau
Hidden BeautyHidden beauty I know can dwell
within a body worn and frail.
I think of one who had been doled
great miseries, so once grown old,
his body seemed...
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Categories:
hero,
Form:
Rondeau
The Darkness at NoonThe darkness at noon - We’ve been led
to walk with a blossoming dread
through streets, as if we have no will,
and all the world is...
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Categories:
dark,
Form:
Rondeau
Rebel in the Library
In the library, at last I am freed
from others’ wishes for what I should read.
Book after book I most gladly peruse
with all these free hours...
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Categories:
books,
Form:
Rondeau
To FeelI want to feel my whole world burst,
see scintillating stars dispersed
across a vast unsullied sky
the sapphire blue of my mind’s eye
when life was fresh and...
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Categories:
emotions,
Form:
Rondeau
Memories of the SeaMemories of the sea wash over me
on days when clouds are drifting cottony
above my head through placid azure sky.
Such images flit like a butterfly
across my...
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Categories:
childhood, sea,
Form:
Rondeau
Wearied Wanderlust "Wearied Wanderlust"
upon a gilded meadow glows a bottle of tender tears
scattered ashes burnt and laden carpeting of stone
ravished emotions turbulent feasting on flesh...
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Categories:
love,
Form:
Rondeau
Words left Unsaid
Words left unsaid as teardrops fell
The price of love, their hearts would tell
And so they parted, love took flight
And left their...
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Categories:
lost love, relationship,
Form:
Rondeau
As Cold Winds Blow
As cold winds blow this time of year,
the limbs are bare, the winter’s here;
a frigid frost hangs in the air.
With season’s change we’re well aware
that...
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Categories:
winter,
Form:
Rondeau
A poet feelsA poet feels in metaphors
and images. A poet pours
their inner world into the air
and innocently leaves it there,
untethered. A poet stores
their love in dactyls,...
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Categories:
emotions, joy, poetry, poets,
Form:
Rondeau
With Poetry
With poetry, I want to seize
all of my opportunities
to pen the things I want to say
in a more deliberate way,
but time is like a summer...
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Categories:
poetry, write,
Form:
Rondeau
Life Is a DanceLife is a dance we were all born to do.
The styles to choose from are more than a few!
Some choose simple two-step; some move with...
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Categories:
dance, life,
Form:
Rondeau
SpringLet laughter ring, for here comes Spring.
With warbling birds we gaily sing.
As wizened Winter turns and goes,
March promptly puffs her cheeks and blows!
The Old Man’s...
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Categories:
spring,
Form:
Rondeau
A PLACE IN THE SUNA PLACE IN THE SUN
A place in the sun, it's there I want to run. . .
Orange and yellow palette brush my face,
they dry my...
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Categories:
rondeau, emotions, faith, god, inspiration,
Form:
Rondeau Redouble
I Dreamed a ButterflyI dreamed a butterfly in golden days
when buttercups lay in the fields ablaze.
It fluttered to my cheek, sweet love to bring.
My heart was wont to...
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Categories:
love, spring, , sweet
Form:
Rondeau
I lay my headI lay my head upon the softness of its mane
My white charger, no knight for a swain
as I am the gallant rider looking for love.
Riding...
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Categories:
horse, love,
Form:
Rondeau
A Blazing FireA blazing fire is crackling its refrain
as I recall a love, perhaps not sane.
Beside this hearth you tenderly caressed
my body and we simmered; then we...
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Categories:
lost love,
Form:
Rondeau
HeartthrobUpon her thorny heart I bleed;
My rose I nurtured from a seed,
With blazing bloom and perfume sweet,
Who pricked me with her warm deceit,
To where I...
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Categories:
lost love, love, sadlove,
Form:
Rondeau
Autumn's BreathThe breath of autumn, from behind a veil
of days lit golden, comes! The sun will fail
to keep its fiery hold on us, and soon
the trees...
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Categories:
autumn,
Form:
Rondeau
This Heavy GuiltThis heavy guilt weighing on me,
Like too many leaves on a little tree
Covered in rain from a sky that poured
I hurt a person who I...
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Categories:
forgiveness, hurt, love,
Form:
Rondeau
For Our Love So TrueFor Our Love So True
For our love so true lasts now forever
For I knoweth I shall leave you never,
Here on Earth ‘n later in...
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Categories:
angel, god, heaven, imagery,
Form:
Rondeau
Crimson RoseCrimson Rose
Against all odds, your destiny,
To live and grow, your history...
You grew and bloomed with all your might
With drops of rain and...
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Categories:
allegory, art, mythology, rose,
Form:
Rondeau
Blind to DeceptionHer eyes are blind to all his lies,
excuses and false alibis
The woman cuddles, silently
beside her lover, brazenly
until dawn welcomes the sunrise.
She cannot see behind his...
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Categories:
betrayal,
Form:
Rondeau