If Words Could Speak

If Words Could Speak

If words, over the heavens, could speak,

They would tell you of our bond,

Of how this friendship blessed me when I felt weak.

It is something, my dear, many seek

But often miss, for they won’t look beyond.

If words, over the heavens, could speak,

They might reach you on your peak

And once more remind you of our ronde,

Of how this friendship blessed me when I felt weak.

I have often wondered if, like me, you still seek

The shadows of our childhood monde.

If words, over the heavens, could speak,

Maybe they would once again reach your cheek

And invite you to dream, by our beloved pond,

Of how this friendship blessed me when I felt weak;

Maybe we could relive this once profound streak,

And avoid thinking of your fateful last second,

If words, over the heavens, could speak

Of how this friendship blessed me when I felt weak.

©2023 Cendrine Marrouat

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I wrote this poem in response to Mike Singleton's Challenge in the Vocal Social Society Group on Facebook.

Theme: Write a Sonnet or Villanelle about Friendship

"If Words Could Speak" is a villanelle, a poem containging five stanzas of three lines and one of four. The rhyming scheme is aba, aba, aba, aba, aba, abaa.

The first and third lines of the poem form the last lines of the four subsequent stanzas in alternation. The last stanza ends with the 1st and 3rd lines as a rhymed couplet.

That's it for today! Thank you for reading.

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Cendrine Marrouat is a writer, photographer, podcaster, blogger, anthology editor, and the co-founder of Auroras & Blossoms and A Warm Cup of Cozy. She has authored and co-authored more than 40 books, including The Train: A Short Story (2023), In Her Own Words: A Collection of Short Stories & Flashku (2022), After the Fires of Day: Haiku Inspired by Kahlil Gibran & Alphonse de Lamartine (2021), Rhythm Flourishing: A Collection of Kindku and Sixku (2020), Walks: A Collection of Haiku (2019-2020), and In the Silence of Words: A Three-Act Play (2018).

Cendrine's work has appeared in many publications. She is the creator of the Sixku, Flashku, Sepigram, and Reminigram; as well as the co-creator of the Kindku, Pareiku, Vardhaku, and Hemingku.