Villanelle Recovery
Emotional overload
Will I recover from these villanelles?
It’s too soon to know;
Only time will tell.
It’s like being trapped in a prison cell—
Locked in with no place to go.
Will I recover from these villanelles?
I’m not buying what some of you sell
Cheap rhymes and slick alliteration, searching for room to grow:
Only time will tell
If any of this is less hollow than a shell,
wanting to know,
will I recover from these villanelles?
Into the abyss I fell,
Will the bruises show?
Only time will tell.
Trapped in this cycle like a clapper in a bell
Reading words of regret, despair, and sorrow;
will I recover from these villanelles?
Only time will tell.
About the Creator
Harper Lewis
I'm a weirdo nerd who’s extremely subversive. I like rocks, incense, and all kinds of witchy stuff. Intrusive rhyme bothers me.
I’m known as Dena Brown to the revenuers and pollsters.
MA English literature, College of Charleston
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The Spark
My mind keeps traveling back to that night at Stillwater before you married your tragic princess. The two of you were there, down on the other side of the bar, the long end of the L, down at the bottom end. I was with my husband, and I was wearing one of my new dresses. It was blue with a tropical floral pattern spilling down from the bodice into the skirt, uninterrupted by a waistline, sequins sewn around the neckline sparkling onto the shoulders it kept falling off of.
By Harper Lewisabout a month ago in Poets
'20/20'
"Do It Again" the track that would ultimately open the Beach Boys final album on Capitol Records which was released on February 10th 1969 had originally been released as a single in August of 1968. The track was the first of many post-Pet Sounds era throwbacks to the early Beach Boys sound which would become continually more cliched and eventually lead the Beach Boys to the level of self-parody they would eventually succumb to in the 1980s while their closest contemporaries The Beatles nearing the end of their run in 1969 would go on to be viewed as the most influential band of all time. However, the song itself is not bad on its surface, and it opens with a futuristic sounding (for 1969) drumbeat captured by then-Beach Boys engineer Stephen Desper using tape delays on the drums performed by Dennis Wilson and John Guerin. The song has been re-recorded numerous times over the years on various Beach Boys-related projects most notably the 2011 re-recording at Capitol studios featuring the five surviving Beach Boys at the time backed instrumentally by various members of both the Brian Wilson Band and Mike Loves touring "Beach Boys" to promote the then upcoming Beach Boys 50th Anniversary reunion tour in 2012. The hammering and power drill sound at the end of the song was an excerpt from a track called "Workshop" that was to be a part of the uncompleted "SMiLE" album.
By Sean Callaghan7 days ago in Beat
Comments (5)
My goodness, this resonates! Whenever I try to write one, it has to be completed and edited in record time, or quite often my brain goes 'splat' from counting, checking line sequences, and rhyming patterns. Feels like word problems in math before anyone explained them properly...
Looks like you’ve been fully claimed by the villanelle vortex—honestly, none of us escape once we fall in. Loved the rhythm of this!
Ha! I was going to say "none of us will recover," but it looks like Kelli covered that. Loved this!
no, you will never recover...it is a part of you now
Well, at least you can put it into a challenge, great take on the form, and there are a lot more to try as well 😁