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Villanelle:Trust No One Even Wife-Husband With Personal Secrets

Villanelle : Trust no one even wife/husband with personal secrets Trust no one even wife/husband with personal secrets Some day shame will stalk as flames at villain stake A reticent tongue policy ensures a pact of no regrets Today’s bosom pal is tomorrow’s cause for threats Even pillow indiscretions can put one’s life at stake Trust no one even wife/husband with personal secrets Fly with the heron hoards and watch out for the egrets Closeness of the species call not home the same lake A reticent tongue policy ensures a pact of no regrets Yet he who holds his lolling tongue well often regrets Another’s running commentary on lives on the make Trust no one even wife/husband with personal secrets When the moment comes as it must in joined couplets Consonance will with assonance dissonance make A reticent tongue policy ensures a pact of no regrets Even Allied Nations covet one another’s vile secrets As Top Dog power struggles scramble what’s at stake Trust no one even wife/husband with personal secrets A reticent tongue policy ensures a pact of no regrets © T. Wignesan – Paris, 2014

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