Children Poetry posted September 11, 2021


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A modified Villanelle

Sailing Away Again

by damommy


We’ve taken to the seas once more.
The tide is in, the wind is right.
Heave-ho, ye swabs, or go ashore.
 
So many places to explore
and all of them a great delight.
We’ve taken to the seas once more.
 
Bare hands, turn to your given chore.
Weigh anchor, mates, the wind is right.
Heave-ho, ye swabs, or go ashore.
 
Make sure we’ve food enough in store,
and all the hatches battened tight.
We’ve taken to the seas once more.
 
We’ll swash and buckle, shout and roar,
and fight for right with all our might.
Heave-ho, ye swabs, or go ashore.
 
Is Mother calling from the door?
I thought we’d rowed plumb out of sight.
Leave go, ye swabs, and get to shore.
We can’t take to the seas once more.
 



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This is a follow up of my poem "Sailing Away." I changed the last lines to fit the story.

A 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 couplet (last two lines).

Line length optional. Meter optional.

One of the most famous Villanelle is "Do not go Gentle into that Good Night" by Dylan Thomas.

Club entry for the "Villanelle ~ week of 9-10-2021" event in "Put Pen To Paper Potlatch Poetry Club".  Locate a writing club.
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