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Villanelle: Even Childhood Teenage Nurture Stops Not the Rupture

Villanelle: Even childhood teenage nurture stops not the rupture Even childhood teenage nurture stops not the rupture No eagle first takes the plunge without daring demon death Yet mindless mistakes make us the picture of caricature Make just one mistake a day in the year and collect torture Shut the day out alone in shell and court worsening health Even childhood teenage nurture stops not the rupture Could the straying baby elephant avoid instant capture From the pride of lions stalking in frenzied stealth Yet mindless mistakes make us the picture of caricature What original sin smacks not of the mistake of rapture Where the hapless heart flounders in Adam’s gasping breath Even childhood teenage nurture stops not the rupture Were not the juicy fruits Eve bore the objects of rapture What did she promise more than the pulpiness of wealth Yet mindless mistakes make us the picture of caricature Human error tosses our lives into the churning of culture Err not and the lives we lead lead us into the noose’s wreath Even childhood teenage nurture stops not the rupture Yet mindless mistakes make us the picture of caricature © T. Wignesan – Paris, 2014

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