Happiness Rondeau Poems

How do I still know your birthday? Walking in halls ,,search" i say. 
But when i look at you, the view dosen't feel like a...

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Behold the world, once calm and still,
Now humming with machines of endless thrill,
We've lost ourselves in technology's web,
Our human connections now hanging by a thread.

Efficiency...

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The sun shines brightly, it's a beautiful day                 ...

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Bursts forth blissfulness, in tranquil stillness
Magnetic heat fills us from head to feet
Ineffable is our heart’s happiness
In resonance with the divine love beat

Our head melds...

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Fallen from grace, our heart seeks expansion
That we once again see God face-to-face
Cyclic pain and joy cause agitation
Pursuit of happiness, unending chase

Memory erased, life puzzles...

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Celebration mitigated by thought
Entrapment in a narrow ego slot
Stagnant waters, dead without aeration
Delusion impelling our contraction 
Piquant dilemma by our own hand brought 

Agendaless innocence...

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Rejection
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...

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Start

On the eve of independence day on August 15, I dedicate this RONDEAU to the topic of 'Real Freedom'

Real freedom lies where eyes see
The world...

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If sorrow and grief were replaced by glitz
and gladness would invite us to a waltz,
there would be lasting joy; nobody will
think of tears, of fear,...

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walking alone along lifes way
looking and watching grasses sway
like memories playing softball
tears reach my eyes when I recall
happiness we shared every day

smile at secrets hidden...

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Before The Harvest

Why is it that we suffer,
Our loneliness alone? 
When the happy dance together,
Arms about each other thrown?

Why is it that we cry in...

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In the circus we were visiting
jugglers stood entertaining 
While the ponies in the carousel go round
while the lion in the cage makes a yawning sound,
yet...

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Was built a wall of loneliness
The blocks were made of hopelessness
No door, no gate, no openings
A moat within the inner ring
The sides sloped down to...

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Were I that man I want to be
The man that I wish you to see
The one who came to you each night
Your senses in the...

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I hear their laughter and see their bright smiles,
Going round and round with joy together,
Their rhapsody reaches far beyond miles,
I hear their laughter.

I believe their...

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