Heart Of A Million Dreams. [Villonnet]

Heart Of A Million Dreams.

With lines decorating the sides of her blue eyes;
She looks upon her reflection in the mirror to -
A blurred image of her past staring back at her,
Draped in a clutter of long forgotten good-byes.

Crocodile tears stream down her foundation disguise;
As bittersweet compassion coats her scarlet lips,
And her pounding head throbs as she etches her face -
With lines decorating the sides of her blue eyes.

A heart of a million dreams lets out a sorrowful sigh;
As the rustic beat muffles her dreadful secrets -
Engraved along the blackened red linen and lace;
Draped in a clutter of long forgotten good-byes.

With lines decorating the sides of her blue eyes;
She spends the night with a torn photograph -
Draped in a clutter of long forgotten good-byes.

© Jenna Elphick
November 21, 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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