Cookies

My cookies have gone missing and I don't know where they are. I planned to give them to my friends as symbols of good cheer— one dozen monster cookies, each one shaped into a star. The finest of the recipes in my small repertoire, this was to be the final batch that I baked up this year. My cookies have gone missing and I don't know where they are. I left them in the pantry—they were too big for the jar. I set them on the bottom shelf next to my husband's beer, one dozen monster cookies, each one shaped into a star Whichever person took them, left the pantry door ajar— It isn't like my homemade goods routinely disappear. My cookies have gone missing and I don't know where they are. I find the circumstances are a little bit bizarre. I guess I need to bake some more before my friends get here— one dozen monster cookies, each one shaped into a star. I found crumbs in the driveway where my husband parks his car— if it turns out that he took them, I will kick him in the rear! My cookies have gone missing and I don't know where they are— one dozen monster cookies, each one shaped into a star.

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Darren White

Date: 5/23/2017 2:35:00 AM

I was wondering: if you write your villanelle (or any other form with a returning line) how do you plan your poem? I write the repeting lines immediately in their right place, and then I start working: can I even make a decent flowing poem with a plot with the one or two given lines? Will the final stanza even be something worth reading?

Darren White
Date: 5/23/2017 3:05:00 AM

Exactly, and at the same time one that is 'general' enough to be able to fit somewhere else, and work.

J-Mag Guthrie
Date: 5/23/2017 2:40:00 AM

The first one was ... atypical because I didn't know what I was doing or where I was going. In general, I know I have the bones of a villanelle when I have a couplet with an intrusive third line that fits between the other two to make a complete thought.

Darren White

Date: 5/16/2017 1:55:00 AM

Hahaha, I love this, write a first villanelle and do it on cookies :) But that said: it was wonderful training round, and it flows like it should, It's simply great!

J-Mag Guthrie
Date: 5/16/2017 6:05:00 AM

Thank you! I really enjoy doing form work.

Darlene De Beaulieu

Date: 5/15/2017 3:06:00 PM

Hello J-Mag, nice to meet you. Did you find out who took your cookies?Who was the cookie thief?A(P

J-Mag Guthrie
Date: 5/15/2017 3:13:00 PM

Oh no, this was ... my first villanelle. I don't actually bake cookies because they're not my Thing. I bake breads (my signature is a quick beer bread). But cookies is a lovely iambic food and I thought about what kind of mischief could happen. Thank you for reading.