True love requires no explanation
when all that transpires is simply sweet;
View it as simply the soul's elation!
In tune with a heart, feeling starvation,
an innate impulse for something to eat -
True love requires no explanation.
Rushes the blood like a warm libation,
and charms the eyes with a God given feast -
View it as simply the soul's elation!
It alerts the mind to check fixation
swiftly, while clearing all chaff from old wheat;
True love requires no explanation.
Unproblematic; basic summation,
warm heart + warm soul = loving treat.
View it as simply the soul's elation!
A Garden of Eden re-creation,
kinetic energy - theory of heat.
True love requires no explanation.
view it as simply the soul's elation!
Author notes
A poem that keeps going 'round and round'!
A contest entry
- Return to classic forms by dericlee.
3500 points, ended May 10, 10 entries
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
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A bit of last-minute coaching.
This message goes out to all entrants:
Finalists as shown on the contest page are preliminary choices.
With three days left before contest closes, I’d like to take a moment to remind all entrants; a villanelle is a metered form, not just a ‘rhythmic’ form, and meter is a prime portion of the judging in this contest! Meter is not just “how many beats in a line” but a set pattern of stressed versus unstressed beats.
While no particular meter is specified for the villanelle, it IS crucial that the meter be even. Whether iambic pentameter, anapestic trimeter, double-dactyllic meter, whatever meter, each line needs to at least loosely follow the same metric pattern as the others.
Another strong facet if judging in this contest is demonstrating an adaptive use of the repeated lines; the best villanelles can’t be achieved by making the repeat lines sentences or independent clauses, but by using them in varied meanings as different parts of different sentences. I refer you to Dylan Thomas’ “Do not go gentle into that good night” for a fine example of how this is done. (For those unfamiliar with the work, I’ve now included it in the text of the Contest Page at http://allpoetry.com/contest/2401901 ) Please revisit the Contest Page…more information has been provided for your use in these last three days.
If enough of you feel the need, contact me. For as few as (oh, lemme think… ) six requests, I’d be willing to stretch the contest by an additional five days so you can present your best work. In the interests of keeping what anonymity remains (glower!) please make those requests on the contest page, NOT by IM!
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I could have sworn that I just read this one.
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Hi, Leo.
You might well have; the author ran into some problems, having submitted two poems. While I didn't specify a one-poem limit, the site's software apparently defaulted to it, and so one poem was deleted.
I told the author to resubmit this one, and the other one got deleted.
It hardly seems fair, but it's beyond my control.
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