Love Roundel Poems

I'm filled with regret seeing you in tears
please forgive me; I know you can't forget
the way I've treated you over the years;
I'm filled with regret.

I...

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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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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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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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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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"Every secret memory, every experience in life, and every 
thought can be written within the words of a poem."

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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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The things I do for what I love; 
Passion has left its residue,
a shine I cannot get rid of; 
The things I do;

Staring wide eyed...

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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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My sweet fairy dream, blossoms of my glee,
In your embrace unfold desires of night
When donning bold smile you answer my plea
My sweet fairy dream

Oh! how...

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Believing you've forgotten those moments we shared,
Finding more satisfying life with another,
Assuming the time came when you no longer cared
I must move on.

When one loves...

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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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Chill shadow fall covering gray 
Spark ember glow in the distance
Field reverberate muffled bray

Soft cool silk silent ambience

Earthward lonesome darken path lay
Veil on penchant earth's...

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