Beauty Roundel Poems

My heart did beat,
A fortress of stone, with no retreat,
I kept the world at bay with ease,
And let no one come close to me.

But then...

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Life is eternal, your soul under spell
Moves the way you sway, glitters as you play
Music in a box, only you knows well
Life is eternal

Songs in...

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"The sounds of Earth is the music of my soul."

Upon the horizon, playful dawn cracked
Dressed in her iridescent rose ball gown
An upturned smile, never a...

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"The sounds of Earth is the music of my soul."


Birds sing tweet~tweet
The ocean waves ring,
After singing they are ready to eat
Earth Sings In The Key...

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Like the faint ray of sun on an autumn day,
Thou alluring Josephus, bring all my warmth.
Trestles on trees crunch while the birds play;
And all the...

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A stellar sight delights the eyes
when comes the night from passing day
and ends sun’s starring matinée
with drama of the darkened skies.

The world assumes nocturnal guise
as...

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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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Sh! Children, come here very quietly to look 
at the baby deer that's laying in a bed
Hiding in among the purple flowers
In it's bower.
It has...

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Look at the lustrous pearl moon all a glow.
I found the ageless elusive Judy in the sky
Standing on the moon pouring diamonds 
From her magical...

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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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Come. John your a dragon rider. Who me? Yes,
Your dragon
Is being born at this minute in that cave you'll 
have to ride him up in...

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 "The mountains are my bones
The rivers my veins
The forest are my thoughts
And the stars are my dreams
The ocean is my heart
It's pounding is my...

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East of Eden’s Land multicolored blossoms glow.
By instinct we surmise why such beauty was planned
to divert our eyes from wild weeds that also grow
east of...

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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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Merciles Beaute ("Merciless Beauty")
by Geoffrey Chaucer
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Your eyes slay me suddenly;
their beauty I cannot sustain,
they wound me so, through my heart...

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