Journey Rondeau Poems

Floating above waves wept his child
Her arms flailing to sustain life
As fierce currents engulfed and smiled
Tormenting the souls fleeing strife

Frenzied escape from plunged nonlife
On that...

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Somewhere down the road we pass
Under sun's heat, drops amass
Sweat and tears we blast
First kept then cast
Under the Moon's hex that was

Journey along the road...

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What lies ahead, I do not know,
But I will confidently go
Along this rough and tumble trail
O’er mountain pass, dank, boggy swales,
To scale the heights, be...

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Blissful tingle, burrowing deep within
Heightened bliss ecstasy ineffable 
Renewal thus, in continuation 
We so become, a living miracle 

No theory; what we feel, factual
Seeping in...

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Valentine’s day, ushering love stirrings
Tender togetherness celebrating
Our hearts entwined, in blissful joy we sway
Rainbow in full view, erasing all greys 
Hand in hand, our life...

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Stretching silence, making joy eternal
Spherical vision, the life flow blissful 
Thought rested awareness of innocence 
Self luminous, love enabled ambience
Free and unfettered, earth journey simple

Blessings...

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On planet Earth the third from Sun
the fate of humankind is spun.
When on our journey we embark
as dwellers here to make our mark
there seems no...

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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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You sing so sweet beautiful nightingale.
I am under your spell.
Pretty soon you'll be living the fairytale.
All will be well.
Your discs will sell.
You can exhale.
Your going...

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Since times of old, prophets did say
A savior, he will come someday.
His birth from danger they will hide
The will of God, they would abide
Their journey...

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In life, we are the puppeteers
till the promise of death unfolds
we journey the story untold
for the spectators’ eyes and ears 

The job is to entertain...

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Where two once stood, now one alone
Left to journey on their own
Gone the love they chose to share
Dashed in the ashes of despair
A heart now...

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rondeau

Envision your route, it's quicker.
Like your crowds thinner or thicker?
Traffic can ruin a trip, no fun;
my choice - less-traveled paths, bar none.
country bumpkin / city...

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What do you do 
when it becomes clear
the ones that you loved,
have been less than sincere?

That they plotted and watched 
for your demise,
while you constantly...

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Oh, take me home, sweet journey of the mind,
along the many roads I've known that wind
through times of blessedness. . . through spans of dearth,
past...

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