Hate Rondeau Poems

In 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...

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I will always wonder what sort of love we had.
I was naive and blindly infatuated.
You were seventeen years older than I, and sad. 
From the...

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I usually hate blue eyes - sharp and cold.
Why I fell into yours, couldn’t be told.
This web we are now both in,
Shouldn’t, but it does,...

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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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When you left me ‘twas no surprise -
as cracks had formed before my eyes.
You claimed that you’d been working late
or stopped for a beer with...

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America, where unrest grows
Between two parties, ill winds blow
That mark the tone: while in the sky
That once so proud bald eagle cries
Scare heard amid the...

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Black abysmal below now waits
Sifting the nuisance, traits of hate
Grave is the door, stairs mold from dirt,
The demon slinging scythe for work,
Face upon face laughing...

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In life there are those haves and those who have not
We are told there will always be poor people in life
Yet poverty causes me so...

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My conversion, on hallowed night
I left my life for the dark sight
My existence comes without day
I must recite spells, go and say
It’s a feeling that...

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Evil specter is out tonight
Floating over the graves of night
They want to touch you and take you
To bring pain to you that’s not new
Sucking the...

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On a park bench, the codger waits
left to ponder why he must hate
this man he loves whose gone astray
in the park, his young son once...

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Joanna Davis

How much are you… willing to give?
Lay down your life so they may live.
In this cold world when passions flame
burns so bight beneath your...

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Let love in 

Open your mind

Let love in 

Open your heart then let love begin

Close yourself but be clear

Close yourself to hate and fear

Let love...

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I'm burrowing inside today
because outside, it's cold and grey.
I'd hate to be a socialite;
I much prefer to sit and write,
so here inside my house I'll...

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**Rondeau**
(Pattern--aabba, aabR, aabbaR)

Take this trip with me into
Past life history, these times renewed
In this cognative state
These memories inflate
Back in the days with my crew

Back in...

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