My love, you're a divine and stunning sight,
The Angel smiled and sent your love to me.
Your voice from heaven is our Lord's delight,
For from your lips illuminates His light,
With His words, of God, you set people free.
My love, you're a divine and stunning sight.
When darkened doubts demand, "Give up the fight!"
The Light supports your soul and makes them flee.
Your voice from heaven is our Lord's delight.
When we share love, the moon and stars at night
Weave the enchantment for our eyes to see.
My love, you're a divine and stunning sight.
When feeling weak and weary, and not right,
The Lord's love smiles in you and calm you be.
Your voice from heaven is our Lord's delight.
Our Lord forgives your thoughts when they take flight,
For He did walk this world and would agree.
My love, you're a divine and stunning sight;
Your voice from heaven is our Lord's delight.
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Author Notes
The highly structured villanelle is a nineteen-line poem with two repeating rhymes and two refrains. The form is made up of five tercets followed by a quatrain. The first and third lines of the opening tercet are repeated alternately in the last lines of the succeeding stanzas; then in the final stanza, the refrain serves as the poem's two concluding lines. Using capitals for the refrains and lowercase letters for the rhymes, the form could be expressed as: A1 b A2 / a b A1 / a b A2 / a b A1 / a b A2 / a b A1 A2.
I believe this is in iambic pentameter, but since it is the first time I have ever written one... I will let you be the judge. I took me about three days to write this, so please, be gentle, but true. :)
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