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Best Roundelay Poems

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Categories: roundelay, society, war,
Form: Ballad



Transient Troubadour Traverses Terrestrial Terrain
'Course as a grim teller of tall tales,
(albeit poetic) reasonable rhyming
quasi roundelay I readily admitted to feign
cuz, stringing words together with
pride and prejudice plus
sense and...

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Categories: roundelay, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Premium Member Beautiful Roses - the Termelay Style
~Beautiful   Roses~
(The Termelay)


Time to relax
See new roses
Nice buds growing
So much beauty and renewal
The sun  shines on all of them now
Nice buds growing.


Dorian...

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Categories: roundelay, beautiful, love, rose, sunshine,
Form: Free verse
Spring Fever
Spring is here, a great a reprise.

A gentle flower-scented breeze.

     Robins sing in roundelay.

     Flowers bloom in...

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Categories: roundelay, nature
Form: Limerick
Tears of Dawn
The day you left my world just fell away,
No hope or will to face each brand new day,
Nor reason to linger awhile in bed
I cannot...

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Categories: roundelay, lost love, heart, heart,
Form: Verse



In Her Kiss
The first, a soft exploration,
That asks without exploitation,
Are we ready for all of this?
My lady holds me in her kiss.

The sleeping senses slowly wake,
As nerve...

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Categories: roundelay, love, me, me, sensual,
Form: Verse
Ascension
No breath of air to ease my heart,
No reason found to be a part,
The time has come to close my eyes
As my soul goes where...

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Categories: roundelay, faith,
Form: Rhyme
Rising Spirit
Beneath the ocean wave he falls,
His duty done as night-time calls,
I raise my eyes from cauldron spoon,
My spirit lifts to greet the moon.

The darker powers...

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Categories: roundelay, faith, light, light,
Form: Verse
Sommerreigen/Summer Dance/Baile De Verano/Danza Estate
Schmetterlinge im Tanz 
Sommerreigen am Nachmittag
Mosaik der Natur 

Von Ferne der Ruf eines Kuckucks
Aus seinem unsichtbarem Versteck 

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The dance of Butterflies 
Summer roundelay in the...

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Categories: roundelay, animals
Form: Tanka
Premium Member Live...Or Not
Live...as a spring day
Live ..as a blossom gay
Live.. as birds in May-
Live..as a flower's bouquet
Live..as a roundelay
Live..as children at play-
Live..as a cabaret
Live..as love's interplay
Live...as faith's...

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Categories: roundelay, life, nature,
Form: Kyrielle
November First Two Thousand Nineteen
November first two thousand nineteen...
abuzz with Autumnal thrum

Divine myriad biota amidst
heavenly Lily of the valley
(Convallaria majalis),
he didst imaginatively greet
Edenic heavenly terra
incognita immeasurably sweet

nature's ensemble proffering
Gaia's...

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Categories: roundelay, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Ode
Premium Member Little Al
Little Al came out to play
With triolet and roundelay.
Boisterous John with resounding whoop,
Skipped along with stick and hoop.
That night when John lay down to sleep,
He...

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Categories: roundelay, educationworld,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Nonet Ninette Any Whichway
MY BEAUTIFUL GIRLS

Zinnia,I remember you,each day
Don't ever despair,my Petunia
Or give up,precious Lily.

Never forget,my Carnation
I'm thinking of you,my Pansy
You have my devotion,Honeysuckle.

My heartfelt love always,Myrtle 
With...

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Categories: roundelay, flower, poetry, word play,
Form: Nonet
Premium Member Nonet Nine Lines Down
a prosaic prothalamion
with a epithalamium
sung to greet their wedding day
in rhyming roundelay-
verse and versicle
doxology
antiphon-
in plain
song...

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Categories: roundelay, poetry, wedding,
Form: Nonet
Thomas Chatterton Translation: Under the Willow Tree
Song from Aella: Under the Willow Tree, or, Minstrel's Song
by Thomas Chatterton, age 17 or younger
modernization/translation by Michael R. Burch

MYNSTRELLES SONGE ("MINSTREL'S SONG")

O! sing unto...

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Categories: roundelay, dance, death, love, romance,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs