Happiness Roundel Poems

Pain is a cruel and vicious thing
That grips us tightly in its sting
It gnaws at us both day and night
And makes us tremble with its...

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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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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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Cherubs playing in a sweet fragrant garden
Are going from row to row smelling the roses
And every now an then sneezing as the fragrant 
Smell over...

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Mom, where does happiness come from?
It comes from within
Yourself. Mom replied with a grin.
The child was watching the fish in the
Aquarium.
Then she went over to...

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Walking in sunshine, along life's highway, 
Smiling with happiness feeling just fine.
Music fills my soul I am loving this day
Walking in sunshine

A carousel awaits me, horses...

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Hop on the joy ride, where no gloom is found.
On  poles - up and down - bright animals glide
And children are smiling round and...

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It is a great joy to be united
Hearts held together without division
Full of grace and unlimited power
It is a great joy.

The reign of happiness void...

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