A Prayer At The Gate
A Villanelle For A Vocal Social Society Challenge
Introduction
This is for a Vocal Social Society Prompt that you can see and enter here.
I didn't think I had taken a picture of the Hulne Park Memorial Garden Gate then I found this, the more you look at it the more you see.
One birthday present that I got from Fiona was the latest album by Polly Jean Harvey "I Inside The Old Year Dying" and the opening song is "Prayer At The Gate" so obviously the two are meant to go together.
I wasn't sure what form to take but I will choose a villanelle.
A Prayer At The Gate
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If I Say A Prayer At Your Gate
Will You Share Your Secrets With Me?
I'll Say My Prayer And I Will Wait
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Crescent Moon, The Badge Of Estate
Wind Blowing The Bending Tree
If I Say A Prayer At Your Gate
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The Wise Owl Lands, Presides In State
The Tree Of Gold Waits There For Me
I'll Say My Prayer And I Will Wait
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Skull And Crossbones, Drowned Pirate
A Watching Crow, Fish Swims Free
If I Say A Prayer At Your Gate
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Will The Fruit Of Prayer My Thirst Sate?
'Neath The Boughs Of That Golden Tree
I'll Say My Prayer And I Will Wait
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Crescent Moons Flank Me As I Wait
This Garden Gate Reveals To Me
If I Say A Prayer At Your Gate
I'll Say My Prayer And I Will Wait
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Mike, this is absolutely beautiful. Well done!
Beautifully smooth refrain, prayerful tone of hope and expectation. Nice work again!
Lovely π
Absolutely beautiful!!!β€οΈβ€οΈπ
lovely, Mike
nicely done, Mike. ππ
Very nice.
This is a beautiful Villanelle, a very fitting and vivid tribute to such a spectacular scene. Well done, Mike! This deserves to be a Top Story, for sure.
You know what, you're right! The more we look at the photo, the more things we see. Also, my mind entered the gutter as soon as I started reading the poem, lol. I kept picturing something else as gate! π€£π€£π€£π€£ But it was a lovely poem!
Praying & waiting. Patient hope without despair. Trusting, even when no answer is forthcoming. Faithful in all, through all.
Great picture! Great poem!