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Exploring Poetry ,WEEK 13 of Exploring Poetry Journey.It is more or less like TREKKING.Say, a poetry trekking....few joined me in my trekking in the past making my experience an enjoyable one...and I am still awaiting more to join me in.

This Week : VILLANELLE

The Villanelle is a challenging but fun form of poetry with a haunting repetitive pattern.Its name derives from the Italian villa, or country house, where noblemen went to refresh themselves, perhaps dally with the locals, and imagine that they were back to nature.Most poets prefer to use this form of poetry for more brooding images or memories that come back to haunt you, but you can choose what subject matter you want.

How to write a Villanelle:

1. A poetic form to express a feeling or an idea.
2. It has a total of 19 lines in the pattern of 3-3-3-3-3-4 i.e in five tercets and a concluding quatrain.
3. Except the second line in each stanza ,all other lines Rhymes.
4. Two lines the first and third in the  first stanza are repeated along the poems in the pattern of
               1st  stanza - A1-b-C1
               2nd stanza -a-b-A1
               3rd stanza -a-b-C1
               4th stanza-a-b-C1
               5th stanza-a-b-c1
               6th stanza-a-b-A1 -C1, 
   Where " a not repeated but rhymes, and b not repeated and does not   rhymes" and  " A1, C1 repeated and rhymes"
   
   
   Another Cinderella Story!

Art by timepass69

Oh! This morning dew, how I feel its need when I am alone here

Its closeness near my skin, trying to quench my thirst , I sigh!

How I yearn for that love I lost somewhere among the rolling years

 I am a sequel of The Cinderella, in my life like her I appear 

Spending my days with abuses, craving for a soft voice around me

Oh! This morning dew, how I feel its need when I am alone here

A lost pearl I am now, my feelings lay unprotected, I fear

Recalling the day when I lost my protective shell to someone else

How I yearn for that love I lost somewhere among the rolling years

Why my mom always sided with my step-sister made things unclear

Making the ache in my heart grow more, leaving my voices unheard

Oh! This morning dew, how I feel its need when I am alone here

I dream of you my Guardian angel, I wish you were there

To get me to home to a Prince who will wipe away all my tears

How I yearn for that love I lost somewhere among the rolling years

Like he found his true love through the lost glass slipper

Rescuing her from all the sorrows that had befallen her

How I yearn for that love I lost somewhere among the rolling years

Oh! This morning dew, how I feel your need when I am alone here

You you want to know /explore more poetry forms with explanations and examples ,do visit "Exploring Poetry" where you can find links of many poets and their poetry form .

The above poem " Another Cinderella Story " is written in Villanelle poetry form and is featured in RiikaInfinity's TOS and Jingle Poetry Potluck .