Sea 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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"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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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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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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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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If there was no tomorrow to see
  No longer touching delight and joy
    We could not feel the pain we each...

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I LOVE NATURE

Sunburst horizon of dawn drips dream on the sea,
on the rhapsody of waves golden garlands glow.
The sailor in me sails on winds of...

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Ghost
Sightings are hard to ignore
Especially since they cause such 
An uproar
Along the sea coast.
Where old sailors start to boast
About how their beings with unfinished
Business as...

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The Roundel

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