VILLAINELLE POETRY - Don't dance with Teddy

 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.

DON'T DANCE WITH TEDDY

In poodle skirts and hair so neatly pinned,

They gather 'round, the sock hop's sweet embrace,

A '50s scene where happiness has grinned.

With soda floats and records that have spinned,

The girls and boys find joy in every trace,

In poodle skirts and hair so neatly pinned.

But one young man with eyes that have sinned,

Freddy, his name, a mask hides his true face,

A '50s scene where happiness has grinned.

Beware the charm that leaves your heart chagrined,

For those who dance with him find no safe space,

In poodle skirts and hair so neatly pinned.

He lures them in, like moths to flame, he's dinned,

Vanished away, without a single trace,

A '50s scene where happiness has grinned.

So, girls, take heed, and when you are binned,

Dance not with Teddy, shun his cold embrace,

In poodle skirts and hair so neatly pinned,

A '50s scene where happiness has grinned.