{"id":107300,"date":"2013-05-30T21:00:11","date_gmt":"2013-05-31T01:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/107300\/the-friday-fling-travels-to-villanellaville-to-write-about-travel\/"},"modified":"2013-05-30T21:00:11","modified_gmt":"2013-05-31T01:00:11","slug":"the-friday-fling-travels-to-villanellaville-to-write-about-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/107300\/the-friday-fling-travels-to-villanellaville-to-write-about-travel\/","title":{"rendered":"The Friday Fling Travels To Villanellaville To Write About Travel!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n <\/strong><\/font>Shhh!\u00a0 Wanna hear a secret?\u00a0 Promise not to tell a soul ok?\u00a0 Oh all right.\u00a0 You can write a poem about it.\u00a0 But that’s it.<\/font><\/font><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

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Here’s the secret.\u00a0 There’s this place, see, called Villanellaville.\u00a0 They say you get there by asking your muse.\u00a0 Your muse knows the way.<\/font><\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n

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So anyway, this place, Villanellaville, it’s a special place.\u00a0 People go there to write about the most memorable summer vacations.\u00a0 Sure, some of them are made up. But the point is, they write about them there.\u00a0 And share what they wrote.\u00a0 Tell the world you might say.\u00a0 In Villanellaville.<\/p>\n

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As you might imagine, the poems they write there are all different.\u00a0 But all in the same format.\u00a0 Villanelles.\u00a0 Right.\u00a0 In case you don’t remember,<\/font> a Villanelle is
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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).<\/font> (ShadowPoetry.com)<\/font>
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<\/strong><\/font>Runaway<\/font><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Why do they runaway?<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

My soul so beautiful, so bright<\/font>
\n But for some reason I keep them at bay<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n


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Sometimes I wish they would stay<\/font>
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Some think I am pretty, I say I’m okay<\/font>
\n Though this doesn’t feel right<\/font>
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What can I do, what can I say?<\/font>
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Just when I think I’ve won their heart, they stray<\/font>
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What have I done to chase them away?<\/font>
\n My soul beckons to them like a beacon of light<\/font>
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\n But for some reason I keep them at bay<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

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This week the Friday Fling travels to Villanellaville to write Villanelles about travel!<\/font><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

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Be sure to save time to read and write vanilla prose about your fellow Pals’ vacation villanelles.\u00a0 Then go enjoy the first official vacation weekend of June 2013!<\/strong><\/font><\/font>
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