Art Roundel Poems

"Life is too fleet for onomatopoeia"
Mervyn Peake

Crash boom bang, I gulp at the din
A buzz then became a chatter
Gone cuckoo at ding dong I'm in
Crash...

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Poetry in motion,
Is more than a notion,
Is more than a quotation.

Poetry in motion,
Is for more than one nation,
Is for more than one situation.

Poetry in motion,
Is...

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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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Charles d'Orleans: a Medieval Marvel


Spring
by Charles d’Orleans (c. 1394-1465)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Young lovers,
greeting the spring
fling themselves downhill,
making cobblestones ring
with their wild leaps and...

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What an adventure
To see colorful birds that God designed
In a book someone left behind.
The title was Birds In Nature
When I opened it up I saw...

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Spring
by Charles d'Orleans (c.1394-1465)
loose translation by Michael R. Burch

Young lovers,
greeting the spring
fling themselves downhill,
making cobblestones ring
with their wild leaps and arcs,
like ecstatic sparks
struck from coal.

What...

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Condemned forever I was to wallow in hell’s despair
As filthy transgressor beyond reasonable doubt
Yet, with His grace, mercy and truth*, midst grave verdict’s stare
The Saviour...

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Butterflies dance in mid air
Watch them you'll see them twirl,
And swirl.
There's two, some times three which makes this
So far from ordinaire.
Nothing can compare
As the wind...

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God Hung in our sky a circle of fire,
And an orb the color of a pearl
For us to admire.

God Hung in our sky
Clouds to add...

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SITTING BESIDE ME on the seat 
swimming in the air
At the neon light wonders 
beaming
I am glad you know that this is 
my flair
SITTING BESIDE...

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