Long Villanelles Poems
Long Villanelles Poems. Below are the most popular long Villanelles by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Villanelles poems by poem length and keyword.
Forever
“Forever”
When The Terrors came,
The Uncontrollable Ones,
she closed her eyes
and listened for the notes
her mother had planted
amongst the deep blues,
beds of Forget-Me-Nots,
she followed the
labyrinthine trail
and through a gate unhinged,
it would seem destroyed, thrown aside,
she...
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Categories:
villanelles, dark, halloween, light, love, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
VillanellesVillanelles
The villanelle is a poetic form based on repetition, with a double refrain.
Villanelle: The Divide
by Michael R. Burch
The sea was not salt the first tide...
was man born to sorrow that first day,
with the...
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Categories:
villanelles, moon, repetition, romance, romantic, romantic love, sea,
Form:
Villanelle
Rondels, Roundels and RondeauxRondels, Roundels and Rondeaux
These are poetic forms similar to villanelles, with refrains (repeated lines) and sometimes double refrains.
Rondel: Merciles Beaute ("Merciless Beauty")
by Geoffrey Chaucer
loose translation/interpretation Michael R. Burch
Your eyes slay me suddenly;
their beauty I cannot...
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villanelles, art, beauty, heart, repetition, romance, romantic, romantic
Form:
Roundel
Pawn to SilenceI was cursed with
ink intoxicating
blank canvases
with toxic scribbles,
releasing twisted tales
of suppressed troubles.
I was a forsaken
ebony rose
in satan's grasp,
kneeling...
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Categories:
villanelles, england, love,
Form:
Free verse
Sestina Style: O Wherefore Thou Is Thy Sestina Angelina?(WORK IN PROGRESS)
O ,wherefore thou ,is thy Sestina Angelina?
she is not here ., thy love thy dove
thou angel eyes hover...oft high above
Tis thyself, a gentleman who doth wait
whilst me dreams and longs to view...
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Categories:
villanelles, angst, depression, fantasy, hope, lost love, loveme,
Form:
Sestina
Ten Villanelles- FirstThe following are Ten Villanelles written over a couple of nights. I was numbering them because I knew I wouldn't be able to post all at the same time. The Villanelle is repetitive and maybe...
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Categories:
villanelles, memory,
Form:
Villanelle
Milt Hankins - RepostedFrom the Bluegrass, a poet named Milt
Took great care with the poems he built.
With both nuance and pace,
Gave the muse merry chase,
Graced the page with the ink that he spilt.
His posting are indeed a delight;
His...
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Categories:
villanelles, appreciation, sorrow,
Form:
Limerick
Poet LmLewis Milton Hankins or LM for short when I call him
Always writes poems amazingly in any form and theme
He’s an excellent poet, author and prolific writer
A man of God, as reflected in his poems--a great...
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Categories:
villanelles, tribute,
Form:
Rhyme
We Smile, Rise From RootsI may take time to smile but keep it on,
May know not what life means, how it bears fruit,
I smile all day-- right from the red of dawn.
Sun be or silhouette shade, reason or none,
Greet...
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Categories:
villanelles, flower, garden, smile,
Form:
Villanelle
Aye,Aye, and a MistressWriters wrong readers with wiles
Please protect poetry and prose
From flagrant fraudulent fancies
Of overwritten odius odes.
A related collection of poetry
Now can be published at whim.
The author just needs lots of money,
Hubris,and perhaps a few pencils or...
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Categories:
villanelles, on writing and words
Form:
Acrostic
Cities of SonnetsIt was tantalizing, sweet completion
Lines of blue ink filling white space
Tastes of emotions, colors of consonants
Music of vowels, syllables singing
To create, and satiate
Then, time thinned
Responsibility and stress stepped in
Poetry, after all, does not pay the...
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Categories:
villanelles, appreciation, creation, journey, poetry, writing,
Form:
Free verse
Ten Villanelles- Eighth8
Who can even understand these words of insanity
I write with the feeling I'm the only one who will care
Considerations not made in selfishness or vanity
I look for some hope, but there is nothing left to...
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Categories:
villanelles, memory,
Form:
Villanelle
Life Is To Sow, Not ReapI wake one day, again for long to sleep,
All life to find: if life or death is fake,
And learn: man’s here to sow, seldom to reap.
Death lives with life all through lifetime...
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Categories:
villanelles, death, life,
Form:
Villanelle
Ten Villanelles- Last10
To move forward what would that possibly entail
An idea so strange, that I cannot even conceive
Knowing that I'm lost, still enchanted by your spell
You should consider all this, and consider it well
Maybe one day you'll...
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Categories:
villanelles, depression, life, memory,
Form:
Villanelle
The Song of WisdomUpon the wind I hear her whispered song
she says “Come to me” with such urgency
I listen now as I’ve been all lifelong.
I turn to look, straining my eyes to see
just like a child who knows...
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Categories:
villanelles, character, growing up, wisdom,
Form:
Terzanelle
Heaven Hails a Happy ManPause, ponder as only man can,
Freed from mind's prison, what-if's pall,
Know, heaven hails a happy man.
Right things do happen to man, when
He hearkens to soul's silent call,
So pause and ponder...
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Categories:
villanelles, happiness, life,
Form:
Villanelle
Ten Villanelles- Ninth9
How can tomorrow come if yesterday never dies
The only future I vision, is always tied to the past
All this happened for a reason is one of many lies
That may sound crazy, but I know what...
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Categories:
villanelles, depression, memory,
Form:
Villanelle
Starry-EyedEyes dazed I stroll and quiver low, enticed
In liquid skyline’s twirl, a slow ballet
to pirouette on fireglows that ignite.
The meadow gleaming near as winds invite
An April centerstage that glides away
eyes dazed I stroll...
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Categories:
villanelles, mystery, stars,
Form:
Villanelle
Ten Villanelles- Seventh7
Finally stopping to catch my breath I am lost now
Knowing where I failed, my very worst decision
Not even recognizing myself, nor the why or how
What good is the field if the farmer cannot plow
Just getting...
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Categories:
villanelles, memory,
Form:
Villanelle
Ten Villanelles- Third3
Love on my tongue the words now at the tip
Second thoughts and doubts kept me quiet
Chance never waits, away time does slip
Memories and dreams make the heart skip
A dead dream dominates my day and night
Love...
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Categories:
villanelles, memory,
Form:
Villanelle
Milt HankinsFrom the Bluegrass, a poet named Milt
Took great care with the poems he built.
With both nuance and pace,
Gave the muse merry chase,
Graced the page with the ink that he spilt.
His posting are indeed a delight;
His...
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Categories:
villanelles, appreciation,
Form:
Limerick
Ten Villanelles- Sixth6
I have searched constantly, no one there
Loneliness accompanies me in this quest
So much left undone, so much left to share
If this is a race, I'm the tortoise, life the hare
Sadly passes and renders test after...
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Categories:
villanelles, memory,
Form:
Villanelle
Ten Villanelles- Second2
Always the hint of hurt is the words I say
Sadly I don't know what else can now be
I began with only one message to convey
Lost, hurt, unable to control pain as I lay
A great journey...
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Categories:
villanelles, memory,
Form:
Villanelle
Ten Villanelles- Fourth4
We started close but have grown a stray
You're facing something extremely sad
We're moving apart, but I'm not far away
You are in my thoughts every single day
For not knowing your situation I feel bad
We started close...
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Categories:
villanelles, memory,
Form:
Villanelle
A Big Bowl of ThingsA Big Bowl of Things
I gulped down a big bowl of soup,
I could've sworn it had assorted letters of poems
that spelled villanelles and palindromes!
It was funny...
'cause when I gulped down a big bowl of stew,
I...
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Categories:
villanelles, confusion, funny
Form:
Rhyme