T Wignesan Poet Villanelle

Villanelle: Talk Not of the Birth of Planets Around Distant Stars

Villanelle : Talk not of the birth of planets around distant stars 

Talk not of the birth of planets around distant stars
Nor of how déchets comets shunted life to arid earth
What’s our life worth if we live in mangers as bores

Wildly lashing oceans marked the limits of our maws
When travel slithered on foot mountains did us girth
Talk not of the birth of planets around distant stars  

How many the astral bodies how shiny the lights of yores
Would clog up the firmament to keep us from eternal truth 
What’s our life worth if we live in mangers as bores

Flights of human minds forged in the blasts of quasars
Can in no way enlighten the frigidity of the hearth
Talk not of the birth of planets around distant stars

Even if life down hère could have evolved brazen bizarres
Pluck not excuses from the skies aloof to comfort us in mirth
What’s our life worth if we live in mangers as bores

Much rather stop this brilliant race from owning stars
Than believe in the sacrosanct rule of space by earth
Talk not of the birth of planets around distant stars
Will life be chaste if we stoke more monstrous maws


© T. Wignesan – Paris, 2014

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T Wignesan November 14, 2014 at 4:43 AM Hi Greg & Paul ! Thanks very much for the warm landing reception on your galactic hideout. I've splayed out my antennae to track you down. In the meantime, watch out for those mundane-spooks from Allemania-Gaul riding a chip of a comet rodeo-wise! Those guys are out to beat the longest sleepless space walkabout in the history of the wildest asteroid bush. Take care and don't fail to wave as I shoot past in my shot-down-star! Every good wish.Ta! Ta! Wignesan