Tuesday, 12 September 2006

• A Villanelle to a Love Lost in Time

  What is a villanelle?

  1. It is a poem of nineteen lines.
  2. It has five stanzas, each of three lines, with a final one of four lines.
  3. The first line of the first stanza is repeated as the last line of the second and fourth stanzas.
  4. The third line of the first stanza is repeated as the last line of the third and fifth stanzas.
  5. These two refrain lines follow each other to become the second-to-the-last and last lines of the poem.
  6. The rhyme scheme is aba. The rhymes are repeated according to the refrains.
  
  
  

  Reference: The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms by Mark Strand and Eavan Boland, WW Norton & Co., 2000, p. 5

   

  So here goes my cheap attempt at doing a villanelle.  Didn’t realize it would be really challenging!  What was I thinking?hehe

   

  A Villanelle to a Love Lost In Time

   

  Reading through your poetry I feel like you’ve already drifted off someplace inaccessible

  I wish you left me with something to hold onto

  Because my soul yearns to make its cries audible
  
  I know I am asking for the impossible
  but oftentimes I wish we didn’t have to grow
  Because now, reading through your poetry, I feel like you’ve already drifted off someplace inaccessible
  
  Thoughts sometimes become incomprehensible

  In the sea of my emotions the words just flow
  Still, I know my soul yearns to make its cries audible
  
  In the silence of the night I am able
  to look at things objectively, leaving me in a state of limbo
  For having read through your poetry, I feel like you’ve already drifted off someplace inaccessible
  
  The fleeting glimpses of heaven we had may seem intangible
  But still I wish you will try to know

  That my soul yearns to make its cries audible
  
  You know you make my soul quiver in ways that are uncontrollable
  So much that I am left with nothing to do,
  but read through your poetry, which leaves me feeling like you’ve already drifted off someplace inaccessible
  Where my soul yearns to make its cries audible

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