Story Eyes (Villanelle Poetry)

When I look into your dark glistening eyes
I see someone who loves and loves hard
That's what I see

I see such a heart, willing, pure and free
A soul broken yet strong to guard
When I look into your dark glistening eyes

I can get lost in your eyes; such a story-spree
Was once a good beginning, an ending left you scared
That's what I see

Tears held back to such debris
Ignoring what you feel to a regard
When I look into your dark glistening eyes

Your pupils large and beg to plea
They speak louder than a Hallmark card
That's what I see

Your begging eyes, opened wide for me
Glistening of roses in a yard
When I look into your dark glistening eyes
That's what I see

*Villanelle is a nineteen-line poem consisting of a very specific rhyming scheme: aba aba aba aba aba abaa.

The first and the third lines in the first stanza are repeated in alternating order throughout the poem, and appear together in the last two lines.

-Amanda