Poetry Wednesdays
For the poetry writers.
Your topic is: little girls in pink frills
Your form is: Villanelle (see form layout below)
Form Layout:
Line One
Line Two
Line Three
Line Four Rhymes with Line One
Line Five Rhymes with Line Two
Line Six Same as Line One
Line Seven Rhymes with Line One
Line Eight Rhymes with Line Two
Line Nine Same as Line Three
Line Ten Rhymes with Line One
Line Eleven Rhymes with Line Two
Line Twelve Same as Line One
Line Thirteen Rhymes with Line One
Line Fourteen Rhymes with Line Two
Line Fifteen Same as Line Three
Line Sixteen Rhymes with Line One
Line Seventeen Rhymes with Line Two
Line Eighteen Same as Line One
Line Nineteen Same as Line Two
Example: The Waking by Theodore Roethke
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I feel my fate in what I cannot fear.
I learn by going where I have to go.We think by feeling. What is there to know?
I hear my being dance from ear to ear.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.Of those so close beside me, which are you?
God bless the Ground! I shall walk softly there,
And learn by going where I have to go.Light takes the Tree; but who can tell us how?
The lowly worm climbs up a winding stair;
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.Great Nature has another thing to do
To you and me, so take the lively air,
And, lovely, learn by going where to go.This shaking keeps me steady. I should know.
What falls away is always. And is near.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I learn by going where I have to go.