Friday, April 11, 2025

Day Eleven-Napowrimo-Hopeful: A Villanelle

Napowrimo: today’s (optional) prompt. Take a look at Kyle Dargan’s “Diaspora: A Narcolepsy Hymn.” This poem is a loose villanelle that uses song lyrics as its repeating lines (loose because it doesn’t rhyme).  Your challenge is, like Dargan, to write a poem that incorporates song lyrics – ideally, incorporating them as opposing phrases or refrains. 

It's engaging and interesting to try so many different forms. I am learning so much along the process. Two of my favourite villanelles are Elizabeth Bishop's "One Art" (which is mentioned in the Napowrimo post) - which I first came across in the movie, In Her Shoes and Dylan Thomas' "Do not Go Gentle into That Good Night".


Day Eleven-Napowrimo-Hopeful: A Villanelle

I can't think of anything tonight
Let alone engage, I am beyond reason in sight,
Darkness engulfs the light.

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