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Posted 3 months ago
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AudioMonkey – Five Inches (Rough)

First recorded poem. Need to do this more so I don’t suck as much.

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Posted 7 months ago

First Attempt at a Villanelle:

Has gone interestingly.

To be gentle.

Reality is, I don’t like it, not because of my writing but because I dislike the form. It’s so… call-and-response without clever musicality, at the least to me.

But I’m working on more poems, partially for a class (assignment due tomorrow, but folio is D, O, N, E) and partially, because fixed form poetry is HARD for me to write but because I’m sick in the head and love a challenge, I sort of leapt on the idea.

So I took Love, my sleeping disorder, my adoration of twisting beauty and ugliness into some semblance of poetic metaphor and came up with what is below.

Here’s my first attempt at a Villanelle (Think ‘Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night’ by Dylan Thomas, plus a love of naval gazing and minus his talent)

Patterns:

She sees a pattern on my skin, far too deep.

but laughs and sings my soul around

as I rest in numb and blissfully dead sleep. 

Within her arms, my soul to keep

forevermore, completely icebound.

She sees a pattern on my skin, far too deep.

She’s not scared of darkness wherein I weep

or the crimson that runs without a sound

as I rest in numb and blissfully dead sleep.

She opens my eyes to the world we reap

the harvest I’ve thrown to the ashy ground

She sees a pattern on my skin, far too deep.

At night, she comes to my heart, where my cheap

love is spread out for her, waiting to be found

as I rest in numb and blissfully dead sleep.

Within her eyes, my heart does leap,

and in her voice, my soul can resound.

She sees a pattern on my skin, far too deep

as I rest in numb and blissfully dead sleep.