VILLAINELLE POETRY - THE DARK CHURCH LAIR

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.

THE DARK CHURCH LAIR

Within the church, the darkness seeps,

Evil whispers through stained glass art,

A villain's lair, where darkness creeps.

The panes depict the damned in heaps,

Their tortured souls torn wide apart,

Within the church, the darkness seeps.

An eerie aura the air weeps,

The devil's work, a twisted chart,

A villain's lair, where darkness creeps.

Beware the eyes that never sleep,

In twisted colors, they impart,

Within the church, the darkness seeps.

Each image there, a secret keeps,

A haunting world of pain and heart,

A villain's lair, where darkness creeps.

Escape is futile; terror reaps,

In this cursed space, souls depart,

Within the church, the darkness seeps,

A villain's lair, where darkness creeps.