Romance Villanelle Poems

Reckless heart, fail me not, fall not prey
To the wind’s caress, the silence at daybreak
Gentling of passions by lovers gone astray

In his arms, words forsake...

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When the Moon fell in love with the night,
Her luminous knight held her ebony hand,
And the Earth twirled with the day out of sight

She wears...

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My whole layout you rearranged
fragments fit my shredded heart,  
revived by a blackout unplanned; 

Cabinets you couldn’t leave closed, 
repairing hinges that had fallen...

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Call back the curtain, containing our kiss,
capturing young heartbeats with all their might.
Crease open the page; no line can I miss.

Within eternity, I reminisce
of the...

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Dark clouds have shifted revealing the moon
Bliss bubbles burst forth in exuberance
To the rhythm divine, our heart does swoon

To highs and lows of life, we...

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Our story is wild style graffiti 
’We fell in love then we fell in love again.’ 
thrown up on an urban wall for eternity; 

We...

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Maiden misses her fate down by the sea
Novel has taken her interest away
Missive on her lap quells her light

Sailor ponders whether she might court he
Watching...

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elegant slanted tall letters she scribed,
her quill dipped in red ink like was her blood mould,
with quivering lips her feelings she described!

tears! these tears sometimes...

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Villanelles

The villanelle is a poetic form based on repetition, with a double refrain. 



Villanelle: The Divide
by Michael R. Burch

The sea was not salt the first...

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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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June, you welcome the sunset afterglow
Of a new brimming full Strawberry Moon.
The final full moon of spring you bestow.

Amid your warmest longer days’ balm flow
And...

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I’ll write and write until I die.
It’s simply my inherent right,
for a word warrior am I.

Romance I write. Perhaps you’ll sigh.
I write of both the...

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Behind closed eyes, October beautifies 
my dreams glazed brightly in woodlands kissed bare,
with winds composing songs in hazel skies.

Our hands entwined, awakened spirits rise 
buoyantly...

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Nourished by garland skies of scarlet blue
And velvet grass in golden green festoon
September wed us; one heart, made of two

Days of turquoise kisses, too much,...

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Welcome May you are the best
So glad to see you after winter
You took a twelve month rest


Singing birds are in their nest
Flowers blooming bright colors
Welcome...

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