Time Roundel Poems

I AM POETRY

Do not mistake me for rambling prose
As I have structure, rhythm and rhyme
Demonstrating how a poem flows
My verse is me, it is what...

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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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My heart gets broken, I can't cry
Feel the fall as words are spoken 
Harsh ideas, that you imply
My heart gets broken

Mind spirals, as old wounds...

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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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How does one Say even one verse, unknown to thy grace? 
Taming is not shaming, Souls, too compromising of a truce. 
We are not there,...

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Down where magnolia blossoms white

Summer breezes touch wind chime's scales

Lovers sleep soundly in the night


          ...

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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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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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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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The Meaning of Christmas

Christmas is sacred to Christians:
A time to thank God for His gift
Of promise, love, and joy blessed with
Our Savior Jesus Christ’s presence.

And...

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I never knew this is what it was called until it
Happened to me
In public.
At first it was traumatic
As it came out bellowing like a banshee
And...

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The time has come to damp down gridlock and polarization
  For the country's citizenry to treat each other with basic decency
   ...

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If time were ours, would we be glad
  Would we fill it up with plans and things
    Would we spend time...

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God chose you for me to raise; every step of every mile
I loved teaching you to walk, prompted by my loving gaze
you made all my...

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Move on,... time will heal it all
Scab makes my wound look so hard.
Anguish gnaws my heart,  tears crawl
My grief does not go away.

Stabs of...

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