Soul Reverie

I like a rhyme that curls the toes and mists the brow
telling a tale as fresh as tomorrow that comes in a dream but is real
and chills the heat of the restless kiss, escaping a lover’s lips.

Nothing spoken caresses the impact on the senses
like a passionate poem with soul-filled stanzas
I like a rhyme that curls the toes and mists the brow.

To a reverie back in time to the moment that captured the soul
lost in the soul-mate meeting, found in the loss of the Self
and chills the heat of the restless kiss, escaping a lover’s lips

O what has become of the reverie that comes in a dream but is real
longing for belonging, for only the Lost and the Found
I like a rhyme that curls the toes and mists the brow
and chills the heat of the restless kiss, escaping a lover’s lips


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14 responses to “Soul Reverie”

    1. Gradmama2011 Avatar

      us girls just like romance, don’t we? ๐Ÿ™‚

  1. Bushka Avatar

    Clearly not intended to adhere to the Villanelle format….Metre, Rhyme and Length? ๐Ÿ˜‰

    1. Gradmama2011 Avatar

      actually I thought it was… but I’m not a poet. here’s the guidelines I followed: “19 lines, two rhymes throughout, each 5 tercets and a quatrain. 1st and 3rd lines of first trecet recurring alternately at end of other tercets, and with both repeated at close of concluding quatrain.” Let me find the source of that… ๐Ÿ™‚

      1. Bushka Avatar

        Have a look here :
        https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/text/poetic-form-villanelle
        You’ll find here the classic example in Dylan Thomas’…
        ‘Do not go gentle in the night’….
        Hugs!

      2. Gradmama2011 Avatar

        I just printed out Mad Girl’s Love Song, Sylvia Plath. I also saw Dylan Thomas the one you mentioned,…. now I am challenged to write a real Villanelle. ๐Ÿ™‚

      3. Bushka Avatar

        Yes…..Love that one of Sylvia Plath. ๐Ÿ˜‰

      4. Gradmama2011 Avatar

        printed the pages you mentioned. I am obsessive…they didn’t call me the Note Card Queen for nothing. ๐Ÿ™‚ stay tuned….

      5. Bushka Avatar

        Very Good….Your Ladyship!!! ๐Ÿ˜‰ Hugs.

      6. Gradmama2011 Avatar

        been listing books for sale…frustrating task. I need to do ebay stuff too, but I would rather just hang out and expound on one thing or another.

      7. Gradmama2011 Avatar

        the more I work on my poor lost attempt at a Villanelle the worse it gets. I think it is what it is, and can’t be hammered into something else. It has its own rhythm, or meter, or whatever…and does not take well to being rewritten. Perhaps I shall set aside my poor lost love and write about a red maple tree instead… ๐Ÿ™‚

      8. Bushka Avatar

        Take a ‘breather’…..Have a fresh ‘Go’… ๐Ÿ˜‰

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