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A villanelle is a form of 19-line poem consisting of five tercets and a final quatrain on two rhymes, but there is more to a villanelle. What is villanelle in poetry (complete definition)?
Tempered Tongue
There are words that I’m slow to say,
Bound inside and kept away, so
My tempered tongue I won’t betray.
Without much thought an ass will bray;
Many with their jawbone slay, so
There are words that I’m slow to...
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Categories:
emotions, feelings, humanity, spoken
Form: Villanelle
Mirror, In The Line Of FireMirrors seize and free; joys and fears; wherefore,
lost toss and turns while hope waits for morning,
gullible holds keys, knowledge opens door,
Faults are the measures by those that implore,
while patience corrects whose worth adds timing,
mirrors seize...
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Categories:
analogy, games, imagery, life,
Form: Villanelle
ZinniaZinnia Jazz called at the daybreak of Spring
The bees buzzed "how on earth does your garden grow?"
And the fresh season tapped in time with a zing
Bearing trowels and soil, the green fingered sing
With love and...
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Categories:
flower, spring,
Form: Villanelle
Villanelles IIIThese are villanelles by Michael R. Burch and and villanelle-like poems...
Villanelle: Trump’s Retribution Resolution
by Michael R. Burch
My New Year’s resolution?
I require your money and votes,
for *you* are *my* retribution.
May I offer you dark-skinned scapegoats
and bigger...
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Categories:
america, anger, community, money,
Form: Villanelle
Villanelles IIVillanelle
by Michael R. Burch
Is poetry mere turning of a phrase?
Has prose become its height and depth and sum?
What happened to the songs of yesterdays?
Does prose leave all nine Muses vexed and glum,
with fingers stuck in...
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Categories:
dark, muse, poems, poetry,
Form: Villanelle
A Room Full of EvilIts all so destroying,
Clear as broad daylight,
We pretend not to witness a horrendous sight.
Self-sabotage, addiction, hatred,
Neglection, stubbornness, negativity
Its all so destroying.
We see it, we notice it,
We even catch it by its speed
We...
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Categories:
analogy, corruption, emotions, evil,
Form: Villanelle
Time LordWisdom gained from pain
Lost tomorrow sentenced
Shadows think me insane
Tortured and blood soaked stains
Detached from earth yet dependent
Wisdom gained from pain
Memory lies in the rain
Star gazing got me contentment
Shadows think me insane
Free to play games
Facing...
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Categories:
crazy, emotions, french, nonsense,
Form: Villanelle
The Crow, the Crusade, and the CollapseAn arrow shot past my head,
Punctured nothing resting inside.
It took another one instead.
I shrink as their land spreads,
A heavy scar to remain beside.
An oppressed feeling of dread.
Shields...
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Categories:
anxiety, mental health, pain,
Form: Villanelle
Insane FantasiesIt’s so easy to explore the Universe;
Lean back, unwind, and simply relax,
close your eyes promise not to rehearse;
Stars, such romantic notions coerce
your spirit to take it to the max;
It’s so easy to explore the Universe;
Unpredictable...
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Categories:
crazy, emotions, space,
Form: Villanelle
Villanelle: Remembering Not to CallVillanelle: Remembering Not to Call
by Michael R. Burch
(a villanelle permitting mourning, for my mother, Christine Ena Burch)
The hardest thing of all,
after telling her everything,
is remembering not to call.
Now the phone hanging on the wall
will never...
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Categories:
absence, children, death, eulogy,
Form: Villanelle
The light of your companyIt's been so long since I've swayed this peacefully
A message roll talks without voice; tucked safely within
'Cause mesmerizing is the light of your company
The sun reflecting; this body gave patina soulfully
A royal blue vessel my...
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Categories:
anniversary, appreciation, devotion, for
Form: Villanelle
Spring's TeaseThere's an earthiness to each scented breeze
and a warm caress in the Sun's embrace,
unveiling the telltale signs of Spring's tease.
The ice melts as rivers slowly unfreeze,
and where daffodils dare to show their face;
there's an earthiness...
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Categories:
beautiful, daffodils, how i
Form: Villanelle
Couplets Retro CurledImagine if a couplet traveled the world,
gaining an accent before moving on;
Repositioned from front to back twirled;
An old rhyme harnessed and hurled,
finding a backboard to bounce upon;
Imagine if a couplet traveled the world;
Tangled consonants...
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Categories:
emotions, feelings, poetry, write,
Form: Villanelle
The shots ring outThe shots ring out,
The soldiers drop,
Comrades shout,
The soldiers are filled with doubt,
As they splash through the slop,
The shots ring out,
The blood shall spout,
The bodies flop,
Comrades shout,
No More scout,
The bodies pile higher, his on top
The shots...
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Categories:
war,
Form: Villanelle
FrostbiteDrifting in the silence of the night,
I just want to reach out and grab you;
I’ll calm what is feral hold you tight;
Ceiling fan spins as hard as I fight,
wide eyed witching hour’s nothing new;
Drifting...
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Categories:
emotions, feelings, love,
Form: Villanelle
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Definition | What is Villanelle in Poetry?