The Good Earth

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A Spring Villanelle

May was obsessed with April's rain
So spontaneous and excited
Spring's flowers would never complain

May tried half-heartedly to remain
Aloof, feeling unabashedly slighted
May was obsessed with April's rain

April sighed, surprised by May's disdain
After all, Spring had been delighted !
Spring's flowers would never complain

April ever so patiently tried to explain
Believing May should be more farsighted
May was obsessed with April's rain

May mulled over April's gentle chiding refrain
Spring's happiness keeping them united
Spring's flowers would never complain

May resolved whole heartedly to sustain
Spring's vision of renewal, and so requited
May was obsessed with April's rain
Spring's flowers would never complain

4/16/2022

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[Danik 2016]

Charming Villanelle! Would ponder a little more about the last strophe. I´m still wrestling with the Villanelle pattern

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Thanx ! Hmmm, had to look up what a strophe is: "Première des trois parties d'une pièce lyrique chantée par le chœur." et "Unité structurelle du discours versifié formée d'un nombre déterminé de vers caractérisés par leurs homophonies finales et, éventuellement, par leurs mètres." Prolly the latter definition.

I too wrestle with the form. It was a challenge in our poetry group here in the Gold Country that got me interested in the form again. One would think it would be easy with only two rhymes and no real sillybibble constraints... "Rhyme Desk" helps a little, poem generator not so much. Pendragon, a past LitNet contributor, was well versed with Villanelles (have to look up some of his works).

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[Danik 2016]

In Portuguese, "estrofe" is the reunion of the verses. For example, the Villanelle contains six strophes, the first five contain in their turn three verses and the last one, four. But now I am not sure if that's the correct word in English.
Pendragon wrote some very good poems. One of my problems with poetry is, that it demands a rich vocabulary, and my English is of course, much poorer than my Portuguese.Anyway it is an adventure.

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An Ode to Nature abab ccdd abcd ee

I walk this life as nature lovers do
Full of wonder for all of creation
The tree by the brook where turtle doves coo
Whose strong roots provide a sure foundation

Earthy and fresh after a morning's rain
Fragrant petrichor soothes my simple pain
Then chancing a dandelion's yellow face
Fills my heart with joy for its perfect grace

For each different path that comes to view
This beautiful earth: nature's oblation
Makes all life's kerfuffles seem oh so vain
Gladly I bid the noisome world abase

And though each path will change from time to time
Yet I'll set nature as my paradigm

4/22/2022

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