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Open Poetry #48

Where Will You Be? (Villanelle)

JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

0 posted 2013-02-15 07:35 PM

Where will you be at the end of the day?
Will the cymbals of catastrophe warn you,
Will you run from what you once did betray?

Will you stand there and like a donkey bray?
As you look around you, you have no clue,
Where will you be at the end of the day?

Your world has fallen apart, will you pray?
You realize you are paying your dues.
Will you run from what you once did betray?

While you try to hang on to the right way,
Everything inside has been turning blue,
Where will you be at the end of the day?

This you find much too late is not child's play.
Your world dissolved into a bitter brew.
Will you run from what you once did betray?

It is much too late to think of escape,
Don't you wish you'd been honest and true
Where will you be at the end of the day?
Will you run from what you once did betray?'

©February 2, 2013 / Jerry Pat Bolton

~*~ If they give you ruled paper write sideways . . . ~*~

Victoria

Member Ascendant

since 2000-08-12

Posts 5869

1 posted 2013-02-15 07:55 PM

I like this Jerry...very nice...I havent wrote a villanelle in a long time. Nicely done as always...You can write just about anything or let me say you can write anything.

~Victoria

JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

2 posted 2013-02-15 08:01 PM

Thanks for your kind words, Victoria, I appreciate them, you are sweet. I try to expand every so often and not stay in the same rut, although I tend to go the free-style mostly.

~*~ If they give you ruled paper write sideways . . . ~*~

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

3 posted 2013-02-16 01:40 AM

Well, you know that old saying - "You can run but you cannot hide". Good one, Jerry.

Helen

JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

4 posted 2013-02-16 07:30 AM

You got that right, Helen. Thank you for being here.

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