VILLAINELLE POETRY - CREATURE FROM THE HACK LAGOON
VILLAINelle
Vil·lain·elle
noun, plural
1. A villanelle style poem of nineteen-line poem with two rhymes throughout, consisting of five tercets and a quatrain, with the first and third lines of the opening tercet recurring alternately at the end of the other tercets and with both repeated at the close of the concluding quatrain.
2. A VILLAIN story in a villanelle poem.
In murky depths of Hack Lagoon, he doth smell,
A swamp monster with dreams beyond the fog,
To write the Great American Novel well.
From reedy marsh, a tale of depth to tell,
With pen in claw, he wades through words agog,
In murky depths of Hack Lagoon, he doth smell.
Through moonlit nights, his ink-stained journey swell,
The quill, his sword, against the shadows slog,
To write the Great American Novel well.
Yet critics scorn, a disapproving yell,
His scales and slime, they deem him but a cog,
In murky depths of Hack Lagoon, he doth smell.
Undeterred, he pens tales that never sell,
His heart's desire, his passion's leaping log,
To write the Great American Novel well.
Within the Lagoon's embrace, hopes to excel,
A creature's heart pours out in epilog,
In murky depths of Hack Lagoon, he doth smell,
To write the Great American Novel well.
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