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Villanelle: Who Rules What Is Or What's Not After the Fact

Villanelle : Who rules what is or what’s not after the fact Who rules what is or what’s not after the fact The first poem struck wasn’t it a cry of hope Words gushing from constricting throats militant act Who must with calipers measure the creative act Draws hot blood choking in dungeons where poets lost grope Who rules what is or what’s not after the fact Who lays the laws down robs the poem from the poet Post-mortem never reveals how thoughts in body cope Words gushing from constricting throats militant act Words feel through emotions un-thought by Eliot Though Bousono makes poets mindless on tight rope Who rules what is or what’s not after the fact Words at random plucked by the senses speak with tact Not so Essay on Man by Alexander Pope Words gushing from constricting throats militant act Songs of joy set to music in dance speak not slack No Aristotle could glean rules where poets dumb mope Who rules what is or what’s not after the fact Words gushing from constricting throats militant act © T. Wignesan – Paris, 2016

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