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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But I Won’t
I lost her along the way.
Where she’s at I do not know.
I should look between the yesterdays.
You miss her too I heard you say.
Angry with me for not keeping her close.
I lost her along the way.
The ties that tied us were worn and frayed.
I’ve searched everywhere, high and low.
I should look between the yesterdays.
You love her too I heard you say.
Angry with me for not keeping her close.
I lost her along the way.
I was her, she was me, we were they.
She did not fit in the life I chose.
I lost her along the way.
I should look between the yesterdays.