God Roundel Poems

In a vampish way, the moon erupts from the sea 
pirouetting across white cap and trough valley
through an impassioned performance of love set free
	in a...

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Kids are creative, made in God's image;
we parents are just coaches on this earth.
God has prepared for them lines of scrimmage;
kids are creative. 

Kids demonstrate...

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A life recovered from Stygian depths
tainted by the horrors of dark abyss.
He falters as he takes one thousand steps, 
		a life recovered.

Pale sunlight stippling through...

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All life is fleeting; I'm destined to die,
and though I'm a conscious thinking being,
the laws of nature equally apply;
all life is fleeting.

Faith helps me to...

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"When you walk across the fields with your mind pure and
holy, then from all the stones, and all growing things, and
all animals, the sparks...

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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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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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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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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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The Meaning of Christmas

Christmas is sacred to Christians:
A time to thank God for His gift
Of promise, love, and joy blessed with
Our Savior Jesus Christ’s presence.

And...

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Oft in My Thought
by Charles D'Orleans
translation by Michael R. Burch

So often in my busy mind I sought,
Around the advent of the fledgling year,
For something pretty...

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To live in the moment
Means we get to see things first hand
Made by the masters hand.
This is by no means an accident.
We get to see...

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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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