Slow Dancing On The Milky Way. [Villonnet]

Ashen snowflakes danced softly through the raven sky,
Brushing down on your sweet face, and you said:
"Standing here with you tonight, is like slow dancing -
With an angel on the Milky Way, with golden stars in her eyes."

But as a tear lined my eye, you sang me a solemn lullaby,
With our bodies silhouetted against the softened city lights,
And you held me close, your heart beating against my chest as -
Ashen snowflakes danced softly through the raven sky.

Your hand shook when you took mine, you said: "My oh my,
I can see the stories hidden in your bright baby blues,
And Honey, I know that you're scared, but honestly, I am too -
With an angel on the Milky way, with golden stars in her eyes."

Ashen snowflakes danced softly through the raven sky -
You held me in your shaking arms, and you slow danced,
With an angel on the Milky Way, with golden stars in her eyes.

-Jenna Elphick
April 30, 2007

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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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