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Villanelles
Villanelles

The villanelle is a poetic form based on repetition, with a double refrain. 



Villanelle: The Divide
by Michael R. Burch

The sea was not salt the first tide...
was man born to sorrow that first day, 
with the...

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Categories: tangle, moon, repetition, romance, romantic, romantic love, sea,
Form: Villanelle



Premium Member kiss -
your silken skin gleams opaline
bathed in Luna's soft wash of cornflower - like a
porcelain Madonna by Michelangelo
conjured to life by the magic
of moonlight

your eyes open just long enough to
affix mine, and affirm I'm in a...

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Categories: tangle, kiss, passion, romance, romantic, sensual, sexy, soulmate,
Form: Free verse
Rondels, Roundels and Rondeaux
Rondels, 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: tangle, art, beauty, heart, repetition, romance, romantic, romantic
Form: Roundel
Premium Member Yangyyolks With Yinyin-Whites
Start and end each day,
and life,
with a taoist egg.

I doubt my eggs are religious.

No, but they are natural,
organic incubators, 
co-arising nondual yolk form
with transparent regenerative function,
cosmological purpose, maybe,
if you're a chicken,
or a turkey, 
or a...

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Categories: tangle, analogy, culture, earth, food, health, math, science,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Bookish Menagerie: A Time Traveler's Library
Toddlers' Exploration: 

Cardboard drum and a thunderous beast
With playful roars in tiny fists and feasts.
Fleeting wings glide to dreams just out of reach
Soaring through tales of barnyard Waddles and Squeaks.
Moo! Quack! Giggles tumble and bump.
Flaps...

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Categories: tangle, adventure, books, childhood, imagination, literature, mystery, teen,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Translation of the Windmills of Your Mind By T Wignesan
Translation of Les Moulins de mon Cœur-THE WINDMILLS OF YOUR MIND by T. Wignesan

(For the orignal text in French by Eddy MARNAY : see here below. The English version by Marilyn and Alan BERGMAN differs...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tangle, autumn, destiny, heartbroken, lost love, poetry, solitude,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
Font Din Black
Font Din Black

so u real??? 
Warning! The following choppy, batty, 
dopey: elegy = flaky, goofy, history: iffy, 
jumpy, kooky: loopy, matty, nappy, nippy, 
sketchy material prone to find the reader 
dazed and bewildered, yet comfortably...

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Categories: tangle, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, addiction,
Form: Free verse
Solitary Confinement 1
SOLITARY CONFINEMENT 1 : Number Four


Many chains, many locks and bars
clattered at four in the morning 
black bitter coffee drugged
a single bucket of cold water 
         ...

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Categories: tangle, africa, body, character, emotions, history, humanity, integrity,
Form: Bio
The Rising Hills, the Slopes To Quench My Thirst
THE RISING HILLS, THE SLOPES, TO QUENCH MY THIRST.
In the last century, the hopes were little,
Grasses they collected, yellow bananas, they peeled,
To move up the slopes, preparation was fore filled,
Oh the grower of banana trees,
To...

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Categories: tangle, 11th grade, 12th grade, addiction, drink, school,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Goethe or The Metamorphosis of Plants Andre Masson
Too much to know, I just don't know it
As I fumble around, just a humble poet 
Frustrated as I watch unfurl a show
I just don't know it, too much to know

Answers are near, in the...

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Categories: tangle, art,
Form: Ekphrasis
Brainstorming until figuratively blue in the gills
Brainstorming until figuratively blue in the gills...,
and finally gung-ho with a poem title
important to yours truly
not disappointing his Facebook fan base,
which electronic affirmation,
and confirmation, breeds gratification
analogous to being
the proud papa begetting offspring
progeny growing up at...

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Categories: tangle, absence, africa, animal, baby, creation, miracle, race,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Seeds
"Seeds"



Blue reaches reflections
touching ripples 
tears in time ephemeral
caresses fragrant Green my canopy

opens the light
inside me 

cracked eggshell 
golden-yoked sunshine
pale turquoise kintsugi
splintered paths inside my mind

in the smallness
of me 
something 
quietly blooms 

ragged yet refined
a gecko...

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Categories: tangle, muse, romance, sensual,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Heisenberg
I’ve been cutting Peter’s hair for a year. When covid lockdown occurred, I learned to cut my brother’s hair - and yes, he still has two ears. When I first met Peter, he had a...

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Categories: tangle, boyfriend, conflict, fashion, school, student, teen,
Form: Free verse
Anomalous Poetic Contrivance Evokes
Anomalous poetic contrivance evokes...
googling inept kickstarted lame outré jaunty hokum

(alternately titled:
Random screenshot within me noggin
instantaneously transforming, 
née devolving into gobbledygook.)

I got born with poker faced physiognomy,
no matter yours truly doth not play cards
though self same...

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Categories: tangle, 12th grade, adventure, character, dream, fate, humorous,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Infinite Grace of Light and Love
The Infinite Grace Of Light And Love
 
Although gone from this sad earthly plane, love may yet embrace,
for within Light's truest of gifts, Love brings its infinite grace...

Weeping tears falling into her coffee she mourned...

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Categories: tangle, beautiful, deep, devotion, love, passion, sensual, soulmate,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member In the Cycle Of Existence
On reflection, a shining  mirror lays my core ethos bear,
inkling etched on mien can’t escape deep probing,
tilted jaw, gleaming eyes, vivacious aspect,
express an ardent quest for exponential flourish,
in this life of mine, and its...

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Categories: tangle, birth, celebration, character, courage, deep, future, happiness,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Parallel Lives
                               parallel lives

  ...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tangle, fantasy, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Bully me you I exemplified archetypal scapegoat
Bully me you, I exemplified archetypal scapegoat...

who suffered cuts by a thousand knives.

Even as old (dish) married 
(spooning) curmudgeon, 
who receives social security disability 
linkedin with social anxiety)
chose the fork less traveled 
aye pucker with...

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Categories: tangle, anger, bereavement, child abuse, family, innocence, pain,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Wander-Lust
Eroticism -
             a supple spine in a wanting curve
       and a foolish fever simmers a scarlet heartbeat...

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Categories: tangle, beach, betrayal, desire, lust, metaphor, night, sensual,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member my little bookworm -
home again, jiggety-jog
oh, how kindly my castle welcomes me!
the pungent loves of earlier meals and my dear one's perfume
Je Reviens and Acqua Di Gioia

like manna for the sensual senses
a weary man dripping from a weary...

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Categories: tangle, analogy, appreciation, books, fun, love, romance, sensual,
Form: Free verse
To Have a Home
To have a home was always something I dreamt of growing into.
But it seemed to be out of my reach.
Each time I'd get close enough to reach out and touch it,
It would crawl back and...

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Categories: tangle, memory,
Form: Rhyme
In the Realm of Silver Linings
" Perhaps, life is just a disaster
wrapped in fairy-glow fragments ~
shimmering with stars of death... "

O' beloved moment of time,
take me where I belong,
in the henna haze of scentless leaves
draped in doves of lotus,
I'll whimsically...

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Categories: tangle, butterfly, dark, death, gothic, memory, metaphor, stars,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Death of the Poet Destroyer
~The Untold Fatal Attraction Poem~

Mid-morning she sees the sun ahead
Her death flowed in a messaged bottle
Gazing into her brown eyes upon all open sores,
Her conscience dark and gray a never-ending war!
A giant cyclone of a...

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Categories: tangle, birth, change, conflict, death, eulogy, life, longing,
Form: Ballad
Ordinary Love, a Villanelle
Ordinary Love
by Michael R. Burch 
 
Indescribable—our love—and still we say
with eyes averted, turning out the light,
"I love you," in the ordinary way
 
and tug the coverlet where once we lay,
all suntanned limbs entangled, shivering,...

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Categories: tangle, love, marriage, relationship, wife, woman, women,
Form: Villanelle
The Storm
The boat,
          smooth sea,
                     tight sail,
...

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Categories: tangle, courage, faith, fear, friend, sea, soulmate, spiritual,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things