Dark Villanelle Poems

These are villanelles by Michael R. Burch and and villanelle-like poems...


Villanelle: Trump’s Retribution Resolution
by Michael R. Burch

My New Year’s resolution?
I require your money and votes,
for...

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Villanelle
by Michael R. Burch

Is poetry mere turning of a phrase?
Has prose become its height and depth and sum?
What happened to the songs of yesterdays?

Does prose...

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Uncommon 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...

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There’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...

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The quicker you get ready, the less you will cry
Fix yourself up, make yourself look pretty
It will distract you from the sting of goodbye

Not so...

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With dense mist adrift you dance cadenced slow,
amid your steps my stalled heart beats return.
Out of sight, you shape in me your shadow.

When from chilled...

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Safely stowed feelings keep the peace
Adrift with all of this, unheard
Forget myself, desist and cease

Truly my concerns should decrease
Perhaps my sanity is blurred
Safely stowed feelings...

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“Capturing my imagination of a candle in glorious blaze,
My breath extinguishing it to get ready for the dark night haze.”  The Poet 

Sunset’s glowing...

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Like the laughing lavender sky,
Reckless as the dark night who aches,
Breathing gentle who makes hearts sigh.

Blessing away silence, so shy
And, dewlike mist never forsakes,
Like the...

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Go gentle into life’s eve, death’s your friend,
Old age clamours to wear a new garment,
Rage not against death, death is not an end.

Should night be...

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Come once more and be my light 
Oh lover who abandoned me 
End this darkness of the night 

Once I knew your radiance bright
And dwelt...

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He was a violent slasher in a movie,
there was no way for him to spook;
The murder weapon rather bougie;

A psychopath doesn’t frighten easy,
when a fear...

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Singing songs of days of yore
Sailors, rovers, boats and hills
Listen O moonish Le Mar

In the dusky eve in meadows
Bells of temps and beechen shadows
Singing songs...

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What he’s capable of, I do admit, frightens me the most
My dread began in 2006, on TV his face did appear
The Burger King with the...

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DO NOT STAY GENTLE INTO THAT SHELL
Do not stay gentle into that shell,
Old age and death sails to snatch your day;
Wake up against the quenching...

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