CPC POETRY CHALLENGE PREVIEW: The Friday Fling Spends Vacation Time In Villanellaville!
This is a special preview for the CPC Friday Fling poetry challenge.
Poems should be posted there after the challenge opens Thursday evening at 9 P.M. EDT.
Friday Fling #234 for May 31st 2013
Shhh! Wanna hear a secret? Promise not to tell a soul ok? Oh all right. You can write a poem about it. But that’s it.
Here’s the secret. There’s this place, see, called Villanellaville. They say you get there by asking your muse. Your muse knows the way.
So anyway, this place, Villanellaville, it’s a special place. People go there to write about the most memorable summer vacations. Sure, some of them are made up. But the point is, they write about them there. And share what they wrote. Tell the world you might say. In Villanellaville.
As you might imagine, the poems they write there are all different. But all in the same format. Villanelles. Right. In case you don’t remember, a Villanelle is
a nineteen-line poem consisting of a very specific rhyming scheme: aba aba aba aba aba abaa.
The first and the third lines in the first stanza are repeated in alternating order throughout the poem, and appear together in the last couplet (last two lines). (ShadowPoetry.com)
For instance:
Runaway
Why do they runaway?
My soul so beautiful, so bright
But for some reason I keep them at bay
Sometimes I wish they would stay
They give up on me without a fight
Why do they runaway?
Some think I am pretty, I say I’m okay
Though this doesn’t feel right
But for some reason I keep them at bay
What can I do, what can I say?
What causes their flight?
Why do they runaway?
Just when I think I’ve won their heart, they stray
I feel like the farthest planet in the night
But for some reason I keep them at bay
What have I done to chase them away?
My soul beckons to them like a beacon of light
Why do they runaway?
But for some reason I keep them at bay
Copyright © 2000 Julie Wright
This week the Friday Fling travels to Villanellaville to write Villanelles about travel!
Be sure to save time to read and write vanilla prose about your fellow Pals’ vacation villanelles. Then go enjoy the first official vacation weekend of June 2013!
Fickle Finger of Fate Award for May 24th
Congratulations Angel Love!
