As it says in Wikipedia, "[a] villanelle...is a nineteen-line poetic form consisting of five tercets followed by a quatrain. There are two refrains and two repeating rhymes, with the first and third line of the first tercet repeated alternately until the last stanza, which includes both repeated lines." A villanelle should adhere to the following format in which capital letters represent the refrains and lower case letter represent rhymes.
A1
b
A2
a
b
A1
a
b
A2
a
b
A1
a
b
A2
a
b
A1
A2
For a simplified challenge, try writing without the rhyme scheme.
Tuesday, August 29, 2017
Villanelle
When I forget that I am me
And want to pierce dark skies above
Remind me then how it should be
Unsure what else there is to see
I’ll want to leave you and your love
When I forget that I am me
And want to break you and break free
And touch you only through a glove
Remind me then how it should be
Save me from darkness that may be
Engulfing me without your love
When I forget that I am me
You must be strong as you can be
And stay awake and feed the dove
When I forget that I am me
Remind me then how it should be
that fluttery birdy-bird feeling that's love
that fluttery birdy-bird feeling that's love
or whatever it is somewhere somehow dot dot dot
rains down every never-ending incessant sometimes
in such and such a season without reason
without wings or wishes or whatnot
that fluttery birdy-bird feeling that's love
above all big and tall tediums and mediums
or even a little itsy-bitsy teeny tiny small knot
rains down every never-ending incessant sometimes
and whew it's not enough i need more
all the time i'm fine how are you not
that fluttery birdy-bird feeling that's love
or another language it's where we live
and what we are and what we thought
rains down every never-ending incessant sometimes
and in some way we fly or cry or hold on
or let go of it when we have fought
that fluttery birdy-bird feeling that's love
rains down every never-ending incessant sometimes
or whatever it is somewhere somehow dot dot dot
rains down every never-ending incessant sometimes
in such and such a season without reason
without wings or wishes or whatnot
that fluttery birdy-bird feeling that's love
above all big and tall tediums and mediums
or even a little itsy-bitsy teeny tiny small knot
rains down every never-ending incessant sometimes
and whew it's not enough i need more
all the time i'm fine how are you not
that fluttery birdy-bird feeling that's love
or another language it's where we live
and what we are and what we thought
rains down every never-ending incessant sometimes
and in some way we fly or cry or hold on
or let go of it when we have fought
that fluttery birdy-bird feeling that's love
rains down every never-ending incessant sometimes
Thursday, April 20, 2017
Thursday, April 13, 2017
ACTIVITY: Build-A-Poem Workshop
ABPeeps met today for the Build-A-Poem workshop held in the LRC. Strips of words and phrases and colored paper were provided and mixed with imagination to provide the results that appear below.
Stay tuned for the next Creative Writing Club ACTIVITY, which will be to create an exquisite corpse poem. Join us in the LRC on Thursday to participate!
Stay tuned for the next Creative Writing Club ACTIVITY, which will be to create an exquisite corpse poem. Join us in the LRC on Thursday to participate!
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