Villanelles are surprisingly fun.
Sep. 9th, 2013 09:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I don't really remember what brought this villanelle's subject matter on, but it's still one of the things I like most that came out of my creative writing class.
Time is fragile, fragorous, fleeting,
"Someday", a distant, hopeless lie,
And we, human, are self-defeating.
A decade, a year, a lonesome meeting,
Days and days and days passed by.
Time is fragile, fragorous, fleeting.
Learn, work, college, job: beating after beating
Until hopes and dreams and plans all die
And we, human, are self-defeating.
Eternity is ever repeating,
But shattered by a cry:
Time is fragile, fragorous, fleeting.
A grin, a laugh, a heartfelt greeting,
But "it'd never work!" with a sigh,
And we, human, are self-defeating.
Around around clutching tearing - competing
For money, fame, love. For nothing, say I:
Time is fragile, fragorous, fleeting
And we, human, are self-defeating.
Time is fragile, fragorous, fleeting,
"Someday", a distant, hopeless lie,
And we, human, are self-defeating.
A decade, a year, a lonesome meeting,
Days and days and days passed by.
Time is fragile, fragorous, fleeting.
Learn, work, college, job: beating after beating
Until hopes and dreams and plans all die
And we, human, are self-defeating.
Eternity is ever repeating,
But shattered by a cry:
Time is fragile, fragorous, fleeting.
A grin, a laugh, a heartfelt greeting,
But "it'd never work!" with a sigh,
And we, human, are self-defeating.
Around around clutching tearing - competing
For money, fame, love. For nothing, say I:
Time is fragile, fragorous, fleeting
And we, human, are self-defeating.
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Date: 2013-09-10 11:14 am (UTC)Never heard of a vilanelle before, what's the rules for those?