Sad Rondeau Poems

He sleepwalked through our wedded years.
We pledged, despite my mother's fears
of differences, I couldn't see.
He swore undying love to me;
but all is not what it...

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How I longed for and every morn,
For a decadent slice of cake,
At beginning of every dawn,
Was hooked, my heart did often ache.

Not fussy, fairy cake...

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My life was dull with hints of gray,
                 No...

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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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On cloud I could write verse for you,
storm surge drifted out of my sight,
placed me under spell of deep blue,
sorrow dragged me into dire plight.

Sadness...

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Violet Jessop, threat ahead
Escaping Poseidon’s death toll’s
“Look after this, will you?” He said
She did, counting down the portholes

First the Olympic’s nurse enrolls
Last, the Britannic’s noon...

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The night's ebon before sunrise, 
In stillness, the stars lie awake, 
New moon is hidden, black sky sighs, 
Who will terminate this dark ache? 

Crystal...

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Please don’t tell me your sad tale of woe
When I am deeply hurting inside,
Trying my best to not let anyone know
I am struggling to maintain...

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Ah, drifting leisurely inside the cloud, 
Watching hot sun’s rays glance across the nose 
of the winged drone, stealthily slipping proud, 
I drifted so peacefully...

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Oh! Scintillating wonders of nature,
The feelings, these my soul rapture,
To heights where I'm at ease,
Nothing else would my soul please,
I’m thrilled at this juncture.

We create,...

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

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Of Flanders Fields the mournful threads remain - 
As tears now shed on homeland of Ukraine.


Land of Ukraine! The dark winds blow, 
Homes burnt to...

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shine with the stars, brilliant, alive
laugh with the moon as night does arrive
listen to the silence drifting on souls
shadows of grace only God controls --
...

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A day in my life, I shall write of it 
The day my loving sainted mother died 
T'will not be your commonplace death obit 
But...

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Once I loved you, through sunlit passions' myopic gaze,
     when beauty burned deep in this fervid breast,
    ...

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