Dec 2023
Not far from here there’s a novelty eye
All bedight with exquisite lashes of gold—
That smiles at all mortals and all that didst die:
Sometimes she’s jolly, sometimes she doth cry—
At peep of dawn till dusk with tears of gold
That smiles at all mortals and all that didst die.”
So sang a wandering wind through the rye.
There’s an eye like of a tiger so bold—
Not far from here there’s a novelty eye;
All animals have seen, all birds of sky—
Whose shine like a rose in bloom doth unfold;
That smiles at all mortals and all that didst die.
Some say, far from fairyland she doth ply”—
Sang the fish in lonely seas deep and cold.
“Not far from here there’s a novelty eye,
A wandering dove went cooing by and by:
Though her strange beauty is yet to be told—
Not far from here there’s a novelty eye—
That smiles at all mortals and all that didst die.
All bedight with exquisite lashes of gold—
That smiles at all mortals and all that didst die:
Sometimes she’s jolly, sometimes she doth cry—
At peep of dawn till dusk with tears of gold
That smiles at all mortals and all that didst die.”
So sang a wandering wind through the rye.
There’s an eye like of a tiger so bold—
Not far from here there’s a novelty eye;
All animals have seen, all birds of sky—
Whose shine like a rose in bloom doth unfold;
That smiles at all mortals and all that didst die.
Some say, far from fairyland she doth ply”—
Sang the fish in lonely seas deep and cold.
“Not far from here there’s a novelty eye,
A wandering dove went cooing by and by:
Though her strange beauty is yet to be told—
Not far from here there’s a novelty eye—
That smiles at all mortals and all that didst die.
A friend of mine asked me how would I describe the sun unto the blind and right up there is what I came up with, a villanelle poem. Hope thou hast enjoyed reading this villanelle.
FORGOTTEN RULES OF A VILLANELLE: A villanelle is a poem of 19 lines broken down into 5 tercets and a quatrain. The first and last line of the first Tercet are repeated alternately throughout each Tercet and in the final quatrain both lines make the foot (couplet) of that quatrain. Each line is decasyllabic and in iambic pentameter. Lastly, thou must never forget that the rhyming scheme is ABA, ABA, ABA, ABA, ABA, ABAA.
Besides, dear reader—hope thou art splendiferous and salubrious. Wishing thee a Merry Christmas and a blissful new year.
Kind regards,
Bard Of Nineva.
12/12/2023.
FORGOTTEN RULES OF A VILLANELLE: A villanelle is a poem of 19 lines broken down into 5 tercets and a quatrain. The first and last line of the first Tercet are repeated alternately throughout each Tercet and in the final quatrain both lines make the foot (couplet) of that quatrain. Each line is decasyllabic and in iambic pentameter. Lastly, thou must never forget that the rhyming scheme is ABA, ABA, ABA, ABA, ABA, ABAA.
Besides, dear reader—hope thou art splendiferous and salubrious. Wishing thee a Merry Christmas and a blissful new year.
Kind regards,
Bard Of Nineva.
12/12/2023.
(31/M/Los Angeles, California.)
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