Nature Roundel Poems

Where moonbeams dance upon the ice 
on frosted lakes of arctic flow,
a peaceful calm the night suffice
where moonbeams dance.

A tatted curtain veils the show
of dappled...

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Red moon rising scanning below
Seeing all, keeping secrets close
Nothing in the night it won't know
Red moon rising

In a haze just slightly morose
To caws of a...

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In a spring that swept in nothing but frost
Breath bating, waiting, no warmth did it bring
Lifting spirits stalled with chilling exhaust
In a spring that swept...

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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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On the sharp side of a raindrop
I felt the ice as I fell through
The deceiving of a cloud top
On the sharp side

Not fragile in the...

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In jellyfish forest they float under the skies
Black and white bark and leaves shadow
Weaving amid trees to skirt prying eyes
In jellyfish forest

No time passes here...

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When nature decides to precipitate
As surely as the earth revolves around
the earth, it does not deign to hesitate,
Consider it done.

A truth I’ve sought and diligently...

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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 streams are my veins." 


Coursing through my limbs, the streams are my veins
Just as the wind is the breath in each lung
Blowing dry sand...

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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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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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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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 "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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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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