Romantic Rondeau Poems

Forever joyful in your eyes,
fervent refuge of sandalwood,
dazzling dreams-fullness mystic nights,
joined encounters so understood.

Love tenderly seeping deep, you'd
awe-engender romantic guise,
ethereal doorstep you stood
Forever joyful in...

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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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Love Is Our Prize

Love is our prize, for we are true,
Thus beats my heart, so claim your eyes,
When in unison two souls coo
As night romantic...

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Like a pearl, a prize, glowing bright
Against the setting of soft skies
Graceful as rain, my heart’s delight
Breathless promise in gentle eyes

Silently, soul yearnings arise
Shining down,...

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I LOVE YOU TRULY

I love you, truly, my dear one,
From dawn till daylight’s setting sun.
Until I go to bed to sleep,
Praying each night … “our...

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Your words of love so soft and sweet
will lift my spirit off its feet,
and take it to the blue skies clear
to drift with clouds in...

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

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Beneath the moon we share our lives
Upon benches, along the drives,
Like others have sat many times
Distant places, different climes,
For this is how a true love...

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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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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...

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Escape
roundel by Geoffrey Chaucer
translation by Michael R. Burch

Since I’m escaped from Love and yet still fat,
I never plan to be in his prison lean;
Since I...

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Her hair so soft, her skin so fair
To let her know, I did not dare
To gaze upon her loveliness
To dream of her so sweet caress
'Twas...

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I'll be thinking of you as the cloak of night weeps lullabies to the waiting moon,
where morning star through cloudless sky sips the sweet of...

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Safe in your arms, we start off slow,
gracefully dancing to and fro.
And gambling on the whims of fate
almost in a hypnotic state,
we wager that true...

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You played a romantic tune on the chord of my heart.
Such blissful melody only true love can impart.
I could feel the booming love beat flowing...

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