To Say it Using Just a Villanelle

                                              

 

 

It was a story much too long to tell.

So carefully, he chose the words to say.

To say it using just a villanelle.

 

He’d met her, but he didn’t know her well.

A married woman, she was known to stray.

It was a story much too long to tell.

 

His longing for her had begun to swell.

What phrase would bring her heart within his sway?

To say it using just a villanelle.

 

With eventide he heard the distant knell.

He thought he’d leave it for another day.

It was a story much too long to tell.

 

But offering the key to her hotel,

Smiling, she turned as if to lead the way!

To say it using just a villanelle.

 

So deep in love those fallen lovers fell.

Together hand in hand they walked away.

It was a story much too long to tell.

To say it using just a villanelle.

 

 

 

Louis William Rose

March 24, 2003

 

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