Challenge
Write a Villanelle, My Genius Poets!
The villanelle is a French verse form consisting of five three-line stanzas and a final quatrain, with the first and third lines of the first stanza repeating alternately in the following stanzas. These two refrain lines from the final couplet in the quatrain. Here's what that looks like (letters for rhyme scheme, numbers mean a line repeats):
A1 B A2//A B A1//A B A2//A B A1//A B A1 A2
No theme, no prompt other than make it great.
For examples of villanelles, please enjoy:
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44976/the-house-on-the-hill
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/150043/letter-to-my-blackout
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47536/one-art
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Villanelle: Kisses Gone South
You'll know that all is amiss
When your pucker is compelled
It will all come down to this
You'll fall into the abyss
When disbelief is expelled
It is an upside-down kiss
You will see you are remiss
When scruples are soon quelled
It will all come down to this
You'll find you smoothly dismiss
The smile that has been withheld
It is an upside-down kiss
One day you will reminisce
Of prospects falsely felled
It will all come down to this
You will try to stop the crisis
But distrust of you has swelled
It will all come down to this
It is an upside-down kiss