Loss Villanelle Poems

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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In my youth, I remember an innocent time
When I dreamt that big dreams would come true
But all those dreams have since been stolen. 

Fate is...

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A Villanelle by Jelsr
Junebug couldn't stop thinking about the hood the house
It was just so slumming and urban
Never had he known anything so robust

That morning,...

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The cold winter day he left us behind
A last spark of light would fade from his eyes
Now he can have back his body and mind

To...

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"Every struggle in my life has been a lesson
and made me stronger."
--Constance La France


Life is a shared gift that takes my walk slow.
It's up to...

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He walked in solitude along a stretch of shore
Head bowed, listening to the incoming tide,
Remembering the filmy silk cover-up she wore,

That day when he could...

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There aren’t many things I utterly abhor,
Seems a waste to concentrate on dross
I do cringe when I look at an unsightly sore.
 
Forced to spend...

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I took a random shot I must confess
A wager made, the wheel of fortune spun
That may be how I got into this mess

A desperado's last...

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All my life’s moments unite and resound
All that I was, all that we are
One bright spirit is homeward bound

Once heartbreak and loss, now eternal love...

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Over in the meadowland the birds are singing
Warm weather portends the returning of spring
The bees have set about their pollen bringing.

Hopeful, bright spring days with...

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In the land where the bears and tigers sleep
Rests the man whom I had once called brother,
And he climbed over his mountains so steep.

We snuck...

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We only began to know what could be
And already it seems things must end
Time changes people even you and me

I guess there never really existed...

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The greatest threat to the world is climate change, 
driven by human emissions and resulting in shifting weather;
the Earth's temperature is rising and little hope...

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We profit but dismiss the cost,
And continue wiith our plunder,
Ignoring wildlife being lost.

We forget mistakes of the past.
Perhaps on this we now ponder. 
We profit...

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I still  long to see you one more time
I would endure that pain of loss again
Yes, I still am with you in my dreams

I'd...

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