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A rondeau is a form of French poetry with 15 lines written on two rhymes, but there is more to a rondeau. What is rondeau in poetry (complete definition)?
A call for peace nowThis is the news, a dream of peace,
an echo from the Middle East,
where children cannot understand,
the broken bones of broken lands,
their only hope, for war to cease.
Every imam, rabbi and priest,
can hear the loss...
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Categories:
children, dream, parents, peace,
Form: Rondeau
The HitchhikerThis highway's mine, goodbye to Jayne,
so long, farewell, Virginia Plain,
strife was yesterday's heavy load,
life is tomorrow's open road,
it's time to hitchhike once again.
Heading where songs, don't sound the same,
and no-one stops to ask your name,
they'll...
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Categories:
america, goodbye, history, new
Form: Rondeau
It was winterIt was winter when i saw you
Hauntingly cold on the church pew
You spoke of forgiveness and fear
To a divine spirit, not here
We were quiet that winter blue
Seeking answers of what is true
In sadness, i...
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Categories:
angst, bereavement, best friend,
Form: Rondeau
Thanks for listening - Bolton FMIt’s your station, Bolton FM,
the place to find out what’s on when,
with all the local juice and jive,
24/7, broadcasting live,
thanks for listening, tune in again.
Find your station, Bolton FM,
ask Alexa or phone a friend,
we’re here...
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Categories:
thank you,
Form: Rondeau
Winter Hill Sunday - 5th September 2021When Sunday came, with strong footwear,
warmed by the words of Bolton’s mayor,
from Halliwell to Smithills Moor,
we followed those who walked before,
and fought for access, just and fair.
Anticipation everywhere,
one thousand hopes that filled the air,
in celebration...
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Categories:
celebration, england, environment, history,
Form: Rondeau
The Starry Night
The starry night the skies bestow
upon us earthlings here below
gives rise to ever wondrous gaze
and sights o’erwhelming to amaze
as in the painting by van Gogh,
that grand impressionistic show
in indigo of cosmic flow,
so disregarded in his...
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Categories:
appreciation, art, imagination, space,
Form: Rondeau
A New Year's CheerA New Year's Cheer
Raise your glass to prosperity,
And ring in the New Year with cheer,
Whilst singing out the latter year
Amid the zeal of revelry.
And kiss your darling heartily,
Expressing bonhomie sincere.
Raise your glass to prosperity,
And ring...
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Categories:
celebration, new year, new
Form: Rondeau
Blue Ridge Mountains
In these mountains, where I’m from, peace amazes,
With nostalgic beauty, its gentle praises.
Silence whispers to souls, believers know love,
Breathless inklings linger, a calm from above.
Love this...
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Categories:
appreciation, home, moon, mountains,
Form: Rondeau
Christmas WalkHe’ll take a walk on Christmas day
pass by the hill where children sleigh;
then pause to hear them laugh and cheer.
He can still hear them loud and clear;
though long since now, they passed away.
On frozen lake,...
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Categories:
christmas, december, memory,
Form: Rondeau
Your eyes do sayYour eyes do say a thousand things
Take souls to glide on angel wings
Drag me alive in timeless space
Like string that broke to end the race
Like fight that ends with bell that rings
Your eyes do say
A...
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Categories:
analogy, appreciation, love, love
Form: Rondeau
LanguishIn languish sleep, so went her fate
through loveless marriage, mired in hate.
Soft-spoken words that now chastise
his world, of stranger’s scents and spies;
gold, traded for some silverplate.
Just once forbidden fruit she ate
her endless strangled passions sate
she...
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Categories:
confusion, desire, emotions, marriage,
Form: Rondeau
Rondeau No 2No one will know how brightly she smiled
That it charmed her parents and beguiled
Those who loved her near home where she thrived
How she sang and danced, so full of life
How her innocent thoughts touched the...
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Categories:
girl, in memoriam, sorrow,
Form: Rondeau
Rondeau No 1At Wounded Knee, we haunt the hill
Where many moons ago we were killed
As herds of buffalo wax and wane
And big sky and silence don't profane
But bless the land where once we fell.
The Men and...
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Categories:
death, history, native american,
Form: Rondeau
The Letter(Inspired by the painting The Letter by Edward Antoon Portielje)
In candle's gentle, flick'ring light so grand,
Where secrets whispered 'cross the paper's strand,
Two lovers' hearts in silent, sweet repose,
A letter's words, their deepest love compose.
The firelight's...
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Categories:
love,
Form: Rondeau
FadingThe evanescent canvas, colors slowly fade
but fading in the sun, the moon is not afraid.
transient are the footprints etched in sand
with time and tide, meets the sea and land.
autumn leaves wither in dusklit winter shade
in...
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Categories:
love hurts,
Form: Rondeau
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