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A villanelle is a form of 19-line poem consisting of five tercets and a final quatrain on two rhymes, but there is more to a villanelle. What is villanelle in poetry (complete definition)?
The light of your companyIt's been so long since I've swayed this peacefully
A message roll talks without voice; tucked safely within
'Cause mesmerizing is the light of your company
The sun reflecting; this body gave patina soulfully
A royal blue vessel my...
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Categories:
anniversary, appreciation, devotion, for
Form: Villanelle
Spring's TeaseThere's an earthiness to each scented breeze
and a warm caress in the Sun's embrace,
unveiling the telltale signs of Spring's tease.
The ice melts as rivers slowly unfreeze,
and where daffodils dare to show their face;
there's an earthiness...
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Categories:
beautiful, daffodils, how i
Form: Villanelle
Couplets Retro CurledImagine if a couplet traveled the world,
gaining an accent before moving on;
Repositioned from front to back twirled;
An old rhyme harnessed and hurled,
finding a backboard to bounce upon;
Imagine if a couplet traveled the world;
Tangled consonants...
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Categories:
emotions, feelings, poetry, write,
Form: Villanelle
The shots ring outThe shots ring out,
The soldiers drop,
Comrades shout,
The soldiers are filled with doubt,
As they splash through the slop,
The shots ring out,
The blood shall spout,
The bodies flop,
Comrades shout,
No More scout,
The bodies pile higher, his on top
The shots...
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Categories:
war,
Form: Villanelle
FrostbiteDrifting in the silence of the night,
I just want to reach out and grab you;
I’ll calm what is feral hold you tight;
Ceiling fan spins as hard as I fight,
wide eyed witching hour’s nothing new;
Drifting...
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Categories:
emotions, feelings, love,
Form: Villanelle
Ripple Blaze
Written: February 26, 2024
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Whilst an ivory sky, my mast ignite.
As tidal waves flicker in sparks that gleam.
Igneous scarlet...
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Categories:
dream, fire,
Form: Villanelle
Kicking TiresKicking Tires
So that is next year’s model, is it now?
The vintage being deftly moved aside.
I feel oddly sorry for them both, and how
Her sleekness won’t survive the filthy ride.
The vintage is deftly moved aside,
the owner...
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Categories:
vanity,
Form: Villanelle
Fields of Blazing StarsBy your ink to this parchment, my thoughts tattooed
I'm drawn to this bouquet; I am so madly
Fields of Blazing Stars, laying randomly, strewed
Happiest are these thoughts deliberately construed
Winter taking them from my core destroys me...
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Categories:
flower, happiness, nature, seasons,
Form: Villanelle
RIVERBANKRIVERBANK
The river of life flows fast toward the weir
This scene is now reality, not a pantomime
So smile for the ferryman as he draws near
Is that sweet music that you can now hear
It is calling softly...
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Categories:
goodbye, judgement, mythology, symbolism,
Form: Villanelle
From the Catacomb
Oh no, Tokoloshe is coming for me.
I don’t want to die.
Oh, my God, I better flee.
I’ll hide behind the Suonoki tree.
The vicious predator won’t find me with his evil eye.
Oh no, Tokoloshe...
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Categories:
halloween,
Form: Villanelle
flightI'd spread my wings to soar in flight
If I but had the courage to make the leap
Brave and bold I'd face the morning light
I'd rage against the coming of the night
And when seduction spun silken...
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Categories:
courage, fear, light,
Form: Villanelle
Switch On Warm FrontsUncommon Sun frisks mercury— heat's blight
On Winter's frame around tree trunks and boughs,
Shrieking frost shattered— melts in her tears, rights.
Atypical thaw for this season's height,
Where my mime yet waits to move for the clouds;
Uncommon Sun...
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Categories:
angst, dark, introspection, lost,
Form: Villanelle
ShadowsAs shadows dance on my wall,
I lie awake in bed.
Who has come to call?
Was that a noise in the hall?
Or was it just in my head?
As shadows dance on my wall.
Did I lock the door?...
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Categories:
fear, lonely,
Form: Villanelle
Dragon FireSoon the dragon will arrive with fire
it’s storm leaving everything anew;
I am smitten by what could transpire;
Blazing it’s trail are Rebels for hire
lighting a pathway with what is true;
Soon the dragon will arrive with...
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Categories:
emotions, feelings, inspirational, introspection,
Form: Villanelle
The Forgotten GirlThere’s a loneliness to her style, it’s true.
No sense of direction or means of success.
A cautionary tale for men with no clue.
With icy tone skin too pale for beauty’s cue.
Thin lips in a...
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Categories:
dark, depression, gothic, loneliness,
Form: Villanelle
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Definition | What is Villanelle in Poetry?