Name Roundel Poems

"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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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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Escape
roundel by Geoffrey Chaucer
translation by Michael R. Burch

Since I’m escaped from Love and yet still fat,
I never plan to be in his prison lean;
Since I...

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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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You have left but some part of you here stays
I drape my mind in your memories sheet
To silent wind your name I often say
Quilt of...

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A rose, another name for a rose, 
sublimely gifted artist, honest, 
time-worn, blithely unseen season grows. 

Me, who is more than mother dearest? 

Meager cutting...

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I died a little inside when your mind faded away;
feeling completely useless, I sometimes broke down and cried,
my tongue numb; I failed to find encouraging...

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I live on the streets they're not pearly white.
To tell the truth I didn't realize how hard it would be to 
Sustain 
Until I had...

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Lying is just a game like dice roll.
Never dealing with personal shame,
fingers crossed, the issues I control;
lying was just a game.

Always looking for who I...

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Fight For queen and country, I'm told to in your pointless  wars.    
My family and principles I will leave at my...

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