Relationship Villanelle Poems

I hold your hand, my guiding light
To our home, a warm November hearth
My treasure, my altar to life

Sweetest coffee, my pure delight
Blanket of bliss, your...

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If I had a dying wish
Your pain would exist no more
All the agony would ease, diminish 


The withdrawals would quickly finish
Hoping you'll remember what you...

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In the warmth of your gaze is where I want to be.
On a journey, endless, under the seamless sky…
Lost and adrift in your emerald iris...

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VILLA NEL

Passion does not a relationship make
Nel was a love of mine so long ago
In that villa overlooking the lake

Our time as one was short,...

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I see the horizon turn purple on your skin
As the sun sets slowly from our sight
And now our last song begins

The birds have flown from...

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Who makes an enemy of a wounded child of God,
Who claim to understand God’s amazing grace
They walk unrighteous paths with feet unshod.

They choose the path...

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Dry your eyes, the sun has set
All the twittering birds have flown to roost
Your mother has her rooms to let

Men traipse in, boots streaked with...

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Ordinary Love
by Michael R. Burch 
 
Indescribable—our love—and still we say
with eyes averted, turning out the light,
"I love you," in the ordinary way
 
and tug...

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Villanelle : Never political but spiritual the ancient Indo-Chinese pilgrim ties

       In Memory of the late pathologist (and amateur...

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My faithful friend
that I believed in
has our relationship in suspend.
It has been in a downwards trend.
It has been,
A dead end.
Alas, he does not even pretend.
Like...

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They say gone are the flowers
Along with the romance.
As for talk it doesn't exist. Oops! There goes 
Another hour.
They lost loves magic power.
Did they really...

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They took my blood and ethnic group, they did.
My soul was skulking, knowing of the strains
If I have no visa, they’ll get mad

Reading my thick...

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Don't flash your cash and think I'm trash.
Your looking at first class.
I am through with all your balderdash.
I don't wear clothes that clash.
For my age...

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When in our relationship love plays fair
Love to the rescue deploys its best machines 
To ensure you and I pour lots of care

In every aspect...

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My love, my happiness, my shattered pride

A grave mistake I made when I was young.

But that is not enough for suicide.


We were inseparable side by...

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