VILLAINELLE POETRY - GRAZING GHOUL AT THE COCKTAIL PARTY

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.

GRAZING GHOUL AT THE COCKTAIL PARTY

In a 60s cocktail party's neon haze,

A ghoulish bartender hosts the affair,

Within, a lurking monster starts to graze.

His charming smile, a deceiving craze,

He serves concoctions with a wicked flair,

In a 60s cocktail party's neon haze.

Unseen, he haunts, his hunger's twisted phase,

Marinating souls, a fiendish affair,

Within, a lurking monster starts to graze.

As laughter echoes, and jazz music plays,

He sips your essence with malevolent care,

In a 60s cocktail party's neon haze.

He tempts you close, amidst the dim lit maze,

Beware the spirits he seeks to ensnare,

Within, a lurking monster starts to graze.

In spirits mixed, he'll let you take your praise,

Yet, in your veins, his darkness starts to flare,

In a 60s cocktail party's neon haze,

Within, a lurking monster starts to graze.