Sara Kendrick Poet Villanelle

Vegetable Garden Does Not Make Smiles For Me

Purple conical blooms lure bumblebee
Foxglove trumpet flowers scent that please
Vegetable garden doesn't make smiles for me

Weeping Willow with grace lures so artsy
Under which lies Butterfly Bush which tease
Purple conical blooms lure bumblebee

But in the vegetable garden foresee
Sweat, toil in heat but food that heals disease
Vegetable garden doesn't make smiles for me

On trellis adjacent pale pink rose see
Just a dewdrop, but not on Butterfly Bush with base
Purple Conical blooms that lure bumblebee

In the vegetable garden no Sweet Pea
More flowers for me and food plants decrease
Vegetable garden doesn't make smiles for me

All I see toil, sweat no trip to the sea
Please do not let the flower garden cease
Let purple conical blooms lure bumblebee
Vegetable garden doesn't make smiles for me

Contest:"Villanelle Me"
Sponsor:Catie Lindsay

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Gautami Phookan May 28, 2011 at 4:02 AM A whole garden of villanelle here, I could visualize the trellis with blue and purple flowering twines climbing and a rose plant beside..a very nice one for this contest Sara, love, gautami

Zzzzz Zzzzz May 22, 2011 at 5:41 AM Very well put together. Entertaining and interesting write.

Jack Horne May 21, 2011 at 6:12 AM LOL, what a creative poem, Sara. Sure to be a winner. I've always wanted a herb garden, but the slugs and snails have other ideas... I didn't know that about the tree of good and evil - very interesting and thanks for that : )

Doris Culverhouse May 19, 2011 at 7:27 AM sounds like a pouting child I knew.

Linda-Marie Sweetheart May 18, 2011 at 4:21 PM thankxxx Sara for your sweet words today .. appreciate the sweet critique and encouraging words on my contest entries luv.. hope u are doing better today with the recent situation of Rocky..luv..

James Foulk May 18, 2011 at 12:46 PM yes very creative, and most rewarding at harvest time, and you sit down to a fine meal. but until then it is hard work, lots of sweat, but oh yummy to eat those Vegetable out of the garden. can't be beat. thank you for commenting on Green Leaves. yes i use to hate summer still after it has been here for awhile, but we have had a long cold winter and here it is May 18, and i have to still turn the heat on, so am looking forward to summer, this year.

Linda-Marie Sweetheart May 18, 2011 at 9:26 AM how creative and excellently written Sara to use this theme to create about the veggie garden in Villanelle.. u definitely will be a top winner ..this is unique and fun and all too true luv..good luck..

Phyllis Babcock May 18, 2011 at 7:24 AM Well i am debating what to put in my garden this year. Petunias and tomatoes had blight last year. Your poem has me thinking about my garden today. Have to try and get it in next weekend and plant it. The buds are on the trees so a couple of days we should have leaves. So late this year. Cute poem Sara. Hope all is well with you and family. love phyl

Joyce Johnson May 17, 2011 at 9:57 PM Great villanelle Sara. Good luck in the contest and keep those flowers blooming. Love, Joyce

Andrea Dietrich May 17, 2011 at 9:39 PM sara, I love the way your last two lines came together at the end. Great repeating lines. I have no green thumb whatsoever and can really relate to this one! Luv, Andrea

Matt Hunt May 17, 2011 at 9:26 PM Very good job with this. I think you will do great:) R.M.

Dr.Ram Mehta May 17, 2011 at 6:03 PM Nicely composed villanelle with equally good refrains, Sara