Forked Tongue – A Villanelle

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Forked Tongue

What is this language you speak?
That I am pretty and I amuse
Yet no deeper do you seek
 
Am I there to decorate and be sleek
Arm candy to enhance your ego
What is this language you speak?
 
Kiss me until my knees are weak
I am more than your accessory  
Yet no deeper do you seek
 
My love is torrid and not meek
Full of passion and lust
What is this language you speak ?
 
The situation has become bleak 
My words are foreign to you
Yet no deeper do you seek
 
Maybe I’m still hurting
I can’t turn the other cheek
What is this language you speak?
Yet no deeper do you seek
 
 
Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing ©

National Poetry Writing Month
Day 5 - April 5, 2019

NatPoWriMo - Prompt

Following Dargan’s lead, today we’d like to challenge you
to write a poem that incorporates at least one of the following:
(1) the villanelle form, (2) lines taken from an outside text,
and/or (3) phrases that oppose each other in some way.
If you can use two elements, great – and if you can do
all three, wow!

I managed two out of three. I chose the Villanelle form (my first attempt!) and the first two lines of the last stanza are taken from “Coming Back To You” by Leonard Cohen

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      Oh thank you Gina!!  I found it a struggle though.  It’s like anything I suppose, the more you try …..  I just need to practice these different forms.  I am enjoying the daily challenges fro NaPoEWroMo 💕🙂
      

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        i am so happy to read your efforts, I can’t do the entire month on my blog, just too much, but cheering those who are taking the challenge, your rock Christine!
        

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        Oh I appreciate that so much.  It is difficult for you as you are still working.  I thankfully am retired at last so now I get to learn all these wonderful poetry forms 🙂💕
        

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        i too am enjoying the wonderful forms just not enough time to attempt them properly. retirement is a long way off for me. you take on the challenges with a lot of strength. your interpretation is always so menaingful
        

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        I feel that way about your Gina.  I hear your heart speaking in every word 🙂💕
        

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    Congrats on your first villanelle.    I like your repetitive lines that speaks of anguish and despair:
    

    What is this language you speak?
    
Yet no deeper do you seek
    

    Good luck on your daily writing for the month!
    

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    I like this cry of pain. Look at me properly – I have meaning. The repetitions are deftly done, and I think they add to the emotion of the poem. Great villanelling, thank you for sharing.
    

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      Thank you so much Sarah 🙂  I really like trying this different forms of poetry.  It helps me tremendously.
      

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