Long Roundel Poems
Long Roundel Poems. Below are the most popular long Roundel by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Roundel poems by poem length and keyword.
Charles d'Orleans: a Medieval MarvelCharles d'Orleans: a Medieval Marvel
Spring
by Charles d’Orleans (c. 1394-1465)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Young lovers,
greeting the spring
fling themselves downhill,
making cobblestones ring
with their wild leaps and arcs,
like ecstatic sparks
struck from coal.
What is their brazen goal?
They grab...
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Categories:
art, autumn, french, prison, spring, summer, winter,
Form:
Roundel
Chaucer translation: RejectionRejection
a roundel by Geoffrey Chaucer
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Your beauty from your heart has so erased
Pity, that it's useless to complain;
For Pride now holds your mercy by a chain.
I'm guiltless, yet my sentence has...
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Categories:
beauty, french, heart, innocence, nature, pride, women,
Form:
Roundel
Charles d'Orleans translationsSpring
by Charles d'Orleans (c.1394-1465)
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
Young lovers,
greeting the spring
fling themselves downhill,
making cobblestones ring
with their wild leaps and arcs,
like ecstatic sparks
struck from coal.
What is their brazen goal?
They grab at whatever passes,
so we can...
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Categories:
bereavement, depression, desire, heartbreak, heaven, romance,
Form:
Roundel
Chaucer translation: Merciless BeautyMerciles Beaute ("Merciless Beauty")
by Geoffrey Chaucer
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Your eyes slay me suddenly;
their beauty I cannot sustain,
they wound me so, through my heart keen.
Unless your words heal me hastily,
my heart's wound will remain...
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Categories:
beauty, heart, relationship, romance, romantic, romantic love,
Form:
Roundel
Rondels, Roundels and RondeauxRondels, Roundels and Rondeaux
These are poetic forms similar to villanelles, with refrains (repeated lines) and sometimes double refrains.
Rondel: Merciles Beaute ("Merciless Beauty")
by Geoffrey Chaucer
loose translation/interpretation Michael R. Burch
Your eyes slay me suddenly;
their beauty I cannot...
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Categories:
art, beauty, heart, repetition, romance, romantic, romantic
Form:
Roundel
Oft in My Thought: Charles D'Orleans translationOft in My Thought
by Charles D'Orleans
translation by Michael R. Burch
So often in my busy mind I sought,
Around the advent of the fledgling year,
For something pretty that I really ought
To give my lady dear;
But that sweet...
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Categories:
blessing, christian, faith, god, heartbreak, heaven, lost
Form:
Roundel
Geoffrey Chaucer translationsThree Roundels by Geoffrey Chaucer
I. Merciles Beaute ("Merciless Beauty")
by Geoffrey Chaucer
translation by Michael R. Burch
Your eyes slay me suddenly;
their beauty I cannot sustain,
they wound me so, through my heart keen.
Unless your words heal me hastily,
my...
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Categories:
romance,
Form:
Roundel
We Can Rise Above the StrainPain is a cruel and vicious thing
That grips us tightly in its sting
It gnaws at us both day and night
And makes us tremble with its might
It starts with a twinge or a throb
And quickly turns...
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Categories:
happiness, humanity, love, success, true love,
Form:
Roundel
Helena - A Midsummer Night's DreamOh spite, oh hell – to the Hell in my own name too!
The hell in love, the hell in romance, the hell of all men!
He being in my name as well of course… as if...
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Categories:
roundel, anger,
Form:
Free verse
Your Divine Worth
"When you walk across the fields with your mind pure and
holy, then from all the stones, and all growing things, and
all animals, the sparks of their soul come out and cling to you,
and then...
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Categories:
spiritual,
Form:
Roundel
I See the World With Open EyesMy heart did beat,
A fortress of stone, with no retreat,
I kept the world at bay with ease,
And let no one come close to me.
But then one day, a crack appeared,
A chink in my armor, to...
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Categories:
love,
Form:
Roundel
Chaucer translation: EscapeEscape
roundel by Geoffrey Chaucer
translation by Michael R. Burch
Since I’m escaped from Love and yet still fat,
I never plan to be in his prison lean;
Since I am free, I count it not a bean.
He may question...
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Categories:
books, freedom, french, irony, romance, romantic love,
Form:
Roundel
Frost Like Filigree
Frost Like Filigree
Frost filigree, superb can be
as nature weaves crystal delights.
With varied lacey forms, we see
sculpture sparked by lights.
'Neath sun...
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Categories:
imagery, winter,
Form:
Roundel
The Soldier's DeathI can smell the coppery scent of blood
and the stench of death, excrement, and piss,
a soldier lies dead, his face in the mud.
I mourn the soldier's death.
War is a putrid expanding abyss
where peaceful hopes soon...
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Categories:
angst, bereavement, conflict, death, imagery, soldier, war,
Form:
Roundel
A Childhood Memory
Each afternoon my mom and I would walk
Two miles along the old lake road to meet
...
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Categories:
appreciation, childhood, memory, mother son,
Form:
Roundel
One Last Tear For Love
It had been snowing all night- it was bad,
you were going to work but I said stay;
you called me silly and I was so mad.
One last tear for love.
You left with a slam of...
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Categories:
lost love,
Form:
Roundel
What HappenedLittle children don't understand
What has happened you see.
All of a sudden they're an outcast it seems in their own
Family.
They're no longer held, cuddled, talked baby to so
They're confused as to how things changed over...
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Categories:
adventure, betrayal, confusion, family, feelings, growing up,
Form:
Roundel
A Springtime Bloom
A springtime bloom with golden hue
Swaying 'neath clouds with fluffy plume
Symbols of hope and all things new
A springtime bloom
They dare to rise in winter's gloom
...
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Categories:
daffodils, spring,
Form:
Roundel
Categories:
places
Form:
Roundel
Nature Will Find a Way "The mountains are my bones
The rivers my veins
The forest are my thoughts
And the stars are my dreams
The ocean is my heart
It's pounding is my pulse
The sounds of the earth write
The music of my soul"
_Unknown
_________________________
I...
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Categories:
mother, nature,
Form:
Roundel
Writing Is My Prayer
"Every secret memory, every experience in life, and every
thought can be written within the words of a poem."
...
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Categories:
poetry, writing,
Form:
Roundel
I Love NatureMy soul cries for Nature and natural things
To blend with my spirit as one
And circle this globe on powerful wings
Oh, show me all that Creation has made
I have been hidden where putrefaction clings
And where decay...
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Categories:
nature,
Form:
Roundel
My Heart Almost Burst
My heart almost burst, knowing what may come,
fearing fate would select you to die first
when you got ill and fought not to succumb.
My heart almost burst.
It wasn't obvious who felt the worst
our moods flipped from...
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Categories:
angst, anxiety, bereavement, death, emotions, feelings, i
Form:
Roundel
If Only I CouldIf only I could; I'd lasso the moon
and every star in the vastness of space,
as my gift to you on our honeymoon.
If only I could.
When I'm close to you, my heart starts to race
and my...
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Categories:
anxiety, desire, emotions, feelings, i love you,
Form:
Roundel
Grandma What Is A ConstellationGrandma, what's a constellation of shapes?
It's the stars your looking at tonight.
See how they're shining bright,
Twinkling, and blinking across the black crape.
You'll need to read Greek and Roman mythology
They're full of legends who had escapades...
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Categories:
adventure, appreciation, beauty, education, fantasy, fun, sky,
Form:
Roundel