Did you see flowers blowing in the fields?
Smell the summer rains displaying rainbows
Taste juicy tomatoes, the season’s first yield.
Did you…
Hear the northeast winds blowing the last rose
Give comforting words, a broken heart healed.
Feel the sea waters washing over your toes
Remember long forgotten box mom sealed
With your possessions that only she knows
Flooding of memories that were concealed
Did you…
Author notes
The Roundel.
It consists of eleven lines in three stanzas. There is a repeated refrain, which is the beginning of the first line. The pattern is:
a b a R, b a b, a b a R
Where R is the repeated refrain.
In a list
A contest entry
- For lovers of Verse Forms: The Roundel by Keith.
700 points, ended December 31, 2008, 20 entries
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
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Great...
... it strikes curiosity and makes the heart pump memories... "Little Things" energizes the dynamo of creativity.
An enjoyable and stimulating reading.
In respect,
Andre Emmanuel Bendavi ben-YEHU
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Bandit Auction 11
This is a lovely ponderance of images and memories, gentle whispers awaking the the mind and heart. Who says forms have to be rigid and stuffy? Very Nice! Best of luck in the Auction.
Brother Dennis
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Bandit Auction 11
I like the use of the senses in this poem, and I think you were very successful with the form and theme of the write. This are "little things' many of us experience in our lives-you brought back some memories!
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Bandit Auction #11
This is some gorgeous imagery that really made me swell and imagine and forget to breathe...
Shari
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Beautiful piece of poetry, the little things that are so beautiful.I try not to take them for granted but they slip by so fast.But it's nice to have a memory
I really like this poem, great job
Be blessed in all you ever do.
Tony
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Nice job. I enjoyed it alot. It was full of those 'stop and smell the roses' sentiments. It was a perfect poem for me to read today.
Mike
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a most wonderful write
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stunning
excellent. stunning, gee I really liked this one
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This works quite well. I think the first stanza is the most successful of the three. It is refreshing to read summer imagery in this time of winter and Christmas poems. Thank you.
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