Tinted Petals {Villonnet}

-Tinted Petals.-

Love sick lullabies play through the cracks in her heart
Whispering lies and deceptions into your ears
As her fingers trace down your spine, a soft shudder
Embers fade out from the hearth of the tragic art.

The bed of roses is filled with cyanide darts
Draped over white sheets of nicotine smoke
Laying elegantly beside your still body; singing - -
Love sick lullabies play through the cracks in her heart.

Her moonlit sword tears your tattered soul apart
Your icy eyes upon her face of stone; you fade
Cheap champagne rusts away your memory
Embers fade out from the hearth of the tragic art.

Love sick lullabies play through the cracks in her heart
A bed of tinted petals painted with your blood - -
Embers fade out from the heart of the tragic art.

© Jenna Elphick
October 7, 2006.

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A Villonnet is a hybrid of the Villanelle and the Sonnet. It has the Iambic Pentameter of both, but holds the four-stanza/line structure of the Sonnet, while utilizing the two-line rhyme nature of the Villanelle. The final stanza replaces the Sonnet couplet with a typical Villanelle tercet.

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