An ekphrastic poem inspired by Tweetspeak’s Creativity Cafe…
children, dreams, and butterflies quickly flutter by (bye bye!) uniquely created, bold flashes of color with bright eyes, soft bodies, and alert antennae stretching, reaching as they fly higher (how high?) warming wings in sunshine, growing stronger in moment yet delicately designed emotionally fragile perfectly asymmetrical (if you look closely) and we wonder… will they become butterflies drinking nectar or moths seeking the light?
A Villonnet is a hybrid of the Villanelle and the Sonnet. It has the Iambic Pentameter of both, but holds the four-stanza/line structure of the sonnet, while utilizing the two-line rhyme nature of the villanelle. The final stanza replaces the sonnet couplet with a typical villanelle tercet. Linking this villonnet to Grace’s prompt at dVerse Poets pub. I was NOT going to write about fall, but here it is…
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i sit on deck to soak in warm sunshine this end of summer’s glow suits my skin fine fat cats watch scene from shade and lounge around piped wind chimes’ gentle song is only sound
forgotten apple falls from top of tree while butterflies migrate, bees cap honey red leaves whirl past as if in joyful dance a celebration of autumn’s last chance
ripe orange pumpkins lie hidden in field as drying crops will soon their harvest yield pheasants and deer will feast upon the corn bred cows will glean before blizzards are born
today, september stays my favorite month until the wind turns cold out of the north then i will dream with birds of drifting south
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NOTE: Line 1 is to be repeated as lines 8 and 13, and line 4 is repeated as lines 12 and 15. I neglected to repeat any lines, not a true villonnet…may have to rework sometime!
a poem in my pocket 
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