The Villanelle: As hard as hell? (562 hits)
Category: Quotes & Stories -> PoetryRating: 2 on 9 reviews (Rate this item) (V)
Submitted by rollerboognish (View user info) at 2005-03-03 17:37:34 EST
This is my experiment with the poetic form known as the villanelle. Hopefully the direction I took with it hasn't been done already. I have to think that it has, but to the best of my knowledge, I'm not plagiarizing anyone. Enjoy the lyricism and shit.
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It's lots of fun to write a villanelle.
Just try and make the words and stanzas fit.
It's also as impossible as hell.
Pick some rhyming words, and pick them well:
The difference between poetry and shit.
It's lots of fun to write a villanelle.
The next concern is knowing how to spell,
Which helps to make your poetry legit.
It's also as impossible as hell.
I met a poetess in La Rochelle,
Who told me of her secret love, to wit,
"It's so much fun to write a villanelle."
She drew me from my unexpressive shell,
Produced a pen, and bade my soul be writ.
But fuck my ass, it's difficult as hell.
I wait to see, now, if my poems will sell
Or end up in Advanced Forgotten Lit.
It's so much fun to write a villanelle.
When floods of fame and money start to quell,
I'll have to find some tykes to baby-sit.
Which also is impossible as hell.
As for my poetess and I, 'tis well.
Good poems are like a finger on the clit.
It's lots of fun to write a villanelle.
(It's also as impossible as hell.)
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Submitted by Phallic_Cymbals (user info) at 2005-06-20 08:04:22 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Like a finger on the clit indeed.
Submitted by ETS (user info) at 2005-03-31 15:14:03 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by epiphany (user info) at 2005-03-03 21:58:46 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Alrighty.
Submitted by JonnyX (user info) at 2005-03-03 19:03:01 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
western lit makes me barf
wisdom comes from the east lands
sucks to be you dood
Submitted by Faithless_Whisper (user info) at 2005-03-03 18:49:00 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Not only did I really enjoy your poem, your casual demeanor in which you wrote it...but I really liked the form as well...and the mathmatically placed themes...that repeated...I like crimbing it with my eyes.
I wish I could give you a +6
Submitted by spedmonkey (user info) at 2005-03-03 18:39:03 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
We had to write some of those for AP Literature. Such pains in the asses.
Submitted by Chinaski (user info) at 2005-03-03 18:02:23 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
nice ; )
Submitted by Monarch (user info) at 2005-03-03 17:44:53 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
That's nothing compared to a sestina.
My buddy wrote one called "Sestina for a sestina." It was great, I wish I still had a copy.
Submitted by Kosta (user info) at 2005-03-03 17:39:47 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
ahahaha i enjoyed that, but i think sonnets are harder.