The Ballad of a Patient Groupie
A Villanelle
I shall now love the lasts of you
As summer wilds have flown away
This will be a sweet adieu
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A life more lived there are but few
Your moth flame flickers to decay
I shall now love the lasts of you
**
What burned bright has sealed us two
In lost smoulders of yesterday
This will be a sweet adieu
**
For without the means to renew
Or opportunity to stray
I shall now love the lasts of you
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Looking back, my love, you knew
Yet still, my love, did you betray
This will be a sweet adieu
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Paid for in kind. A love in lieu.
My patient heart has seized the day
I shall now love the lasts of you
This will be a sweet adieu.
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About the Creator
Caroline Jane
Warm-blooded vertebrate, domesticated with a preference for the wild. Howls at the moon and forages on the dark side of it. Laughs like a hyena. Fuelled by good times and fairy dust. Writes obsessively with no holes barred.
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A minute. Sixty seconds to say goodbye. That’s all the time that I had left with him as the needle slid into his leg. I stared into his drooping eyes, looked at the blood-tainted saliva dripping from the corner of his mouth. They said that this was the best thing that we could do for him, a last kind act for a best friend…but if that were the case, then why did my heart feel so heavy?
By Stephanie Hoogstad5 days ago in Fiction
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I love this one 🥰
I hadn't hearted but had commented, wonderful villanelle
A beautiful Villanelle! Kudos!
This poem is GORGEOUS. You immediately won my heart with the first "This will be the sweetest adieu" - I am a sucker for certain words, "adieu" is simply mesmerizing. I love the way this poem repeats, like a song. Very well done! Hearted and subscribed. :)
Deep love never dies
A heartfelt piece of poetry, raw and genuine. Very well done!
gorgeous!!!!
This is a beautiful piece. Well done.
Absolutely awesome 💕
This will probably be a top story great villanelle Caroline