Monday, August 18, 2008

A villanelle

This is a poem called Celebrate Knowing. Some of you may notice the LDS undertones. It was written with the process of repentence in mind.

For your information, the American Heritage Dictionary (online) says that a villanelle is: "A 19-line poem of fixed form consisting of five tercets and a final quatrain on two rhymes, with the first and third lines of the first tercet repeated alternately as a refrain closing the succeeding stanzas and joined as the final couplet of the quatrain."

3 comments:

Becca said...

I LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE this poem!!! It's so eloquent and beautiful- yet pure and simple. And it really does capture the feeling of repentance! I think you should submit this to the Ensign or New Era- seriously. No joke!

Dani jennings said...

dani totally likes it!

Belle said...

Wow, I love it!