VILLAINELLE POETRY - BENEATH THE FLICKERING MARKET LIGHTS

 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.

BENEATH THE FLICKERING MARKET LIGHTS

Beneath the flickering market lights,

Distraught mothers leave their young,

A cursed aisle where darkness alights.

The bats descend, eerie flights,

Their cries like whispers, fearsome sung,

Beneath the flickering market lights.

In shadows cast, no signs of fights,

A chilling pact, an ancient rung,

A cursed aisle where darkness alights.

Their tender cries, the moon invites,

To creatures lurking, shadows clung,

Beneath the flickering market lights.

Their sacrifice on moonlit nights,

A haunting place where doom is strung,

A cursed aisle where darkness alights.

In this aisle, a nightmare ignites,

With bat creatures, a tale unsung,

Beneath the flickering market lights,

A cursed aisle where darkness alights.