David Mohn Poet Villanelle

A Garden Dances

Be still...a garden dances
Pollination’s lush ballet
Find your Zen with gentle glances

The stage abuzz, new life advances 
Grand jetés in jaundiced sway 
Be still...a garden dances

Succulent as new romance is
Nectar sweet - a frail buffet  
Find your Zen with gentle glances

With fickle fervor, pollen prances
Bloom to bloom in roguish play
Be still...a garden dances

Astute design, no theory lances
Sacral treasures time parlays 
Find your Zen with gentle glances

Ponder all the fragile chances
Life stirs life then flits away
Be still...a garden dances
Find your Zen with gentle glances


15 Sep 2019

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Christuraj Alex April 20, 2022 at 7:46 PM The last stanza, indeed, is a beautiful lesson. Congratulations!

Bj Legros Kelley April 20, 2022 at 6:29 PM This is beautiful David! Thank you for your submission and congratulations on your high placing win in the Garden Inspirations Poetry Contest! :) <3

Susan Lawrence January 18, 2021 at 8:02 AM David, Beautiful ....the words..the movement of sound and imagery and emotion. A dance for sure . So full of life . I love Pollinations lush ballet ! Susan :)

Andrea Dietrich March 1, 2020 at 4:06 PM David, one of your haiku from long ago appears at a blog Craig currently has posted. Just thought I would let you know and also came here to say I miss you and your fine work.

Brenda Chiri October 30, 2019 at 1:55 AM WhT beauty this poem emits from each word ! Love it my friend!;)

Constance La France October 3, 2019 at 4:52 PM David congratulations on your win in the contest with this lovely poem !

Joseph P. DiMino October 2, 2019 at 6:27 AM "Ponder all the fragile chances Life stirs life then flits away Be still...a garden dances Find your Zen with gentle glances" Very Beautiful! Lovely poem. Good luck in contest.

Andrea Dietrich September 28, 2019 at 7:15 PM wow, I did not know it was for that particular contest but when I got to the end, I thought, this was a brilliant way to DO it!! I think it will be a winner for sure.

Paul Callus September 20, 2019 at 12:20 PM Well done, David! Your take on the Bumbles Bounce Poetry Contest theme is creative, and I expect to see it on the winners' list. Regards // paul

Elaine Perrin September 17, 2019 at 3:53 AM A beautiful read , really enjoyed this :-) x

Constance La France September 15, 2019 at 8:17 PM David, this is wonderful for the contest. I tried to write a Villanelle today for Silent Ones contest, it was hard to find all those a and b rhyming words

Brenda Chiri September 15, 2019 at 6:00 PM Simply gorgeous write!;)

Silent One September 15, 2019 at 2:55 PM This is not an easy form, you have done it very well and wrote a very good poem for this contest.