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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Someday we might...
Look at the sun, do you see the same light?
Think of loving me, wish the day away,
Hoping and dreaming that someday we might.
I think of you through the darkness of night.
Though the weight of the world puts us astray,
Look at the sun, do you see the same light?
We hold onto our love, even despite
The plod of our lives, we crave for a way,
Hoping and dreaming that someday we might.
Now think of me, of the way I'll shine bright
When at last we meet, I'll know that today,
Look at the sun, you will see the same light.
Even without you, I will not lose sight
Of what we will be, but just for today,
Look at the sun, do you see the same light?
I'm hoping, dreaming, that someday we might.