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Song Roundel Poems

These Song Roundel poems are examples of Roundel poems about Song. These are the best examples of Roundel Song poems written by international poets.

Eternal You

Life is eternal, your soul under spell
Moves the way you sway, glitters as you play
Music in a box, only you knows well
Life is eternal

Songs in...

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Categories: creation, image, life, music,

Playful Dawn

"The sounds of Earth is the music of my soul."

Upon the horizon, playful dawn cracked
Dressed in her iridescent rose ball gown
An upturned smile, never a...

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Categories: beauty,

The Key of E

"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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Categories: beauty, bird, earth, rain,

Charles D'Orleans: a Medieval Marvel

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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Categories: art, autumn, french, prison,

Chaucer Translation: Rejection

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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Categories: beauty, french, heart, innocence,

Chaucer Translation: Merciless Beauty

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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Categories: beauty, heart, relationship, romance,

Charles D'Orleans Translations

Spring
by Charles d'Orleans (c.1394-1465)
loose translation by Michael R. Burch

Young lovers,
greeting the spring
fling themselves downhill,
making cobblestones ring
with their wild leaps and arcs,
like ecstatic sparks
struck from coal.

What...

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Categories: bereavement, depression, desire, heartbreak,

An Easter Word

I am

      I am

              the source

the source
...

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Categories: christian, song,

A Childhood Memory

A CHILDHOOD MEMORY

I recall how in my younger days
I created things to entertain myself 
I had some very memorable ways

Let me not forget my youth

The...

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Categories: memory, song, youth,

I Love Nature

So soft the fall in silent flight
 As snowflake dance to winter's song
 Like butterflies with wings of white
 A dance of beauty

 As winter...

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Categories: butterfly, dance, nature,

Visions Can Come True

The clouds took over the whole sky
While I held onto thoughts of you
Sunshine memories from up high
        ...

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Categories: beauty, bird, change, sky,

Adam: All Our Innocence Gone

For Suzette’s Roundel contest based on Milton's 'Paradise Lost'  

As I watch you depart from my life
And your tempter is leading you on,
It appears...

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Categories: bible,