Weekly Poetry Challenge Five and Six

{size:15pt}Guns Don’t Kill Villanelle {/size}

Guns Don’t Kill Villanelle


NRA maintains a Lie
 

The NRA maintains a lie.
Guns don’t kill.
many people die.

the gun ghosts cry.
it is not god’s will.
the NRA maintains a lie.

gun men get high.
and get chill.
many people die.

the victims sigh.
there is no goodwill.
the NRA maintains a lie.

the public asks why?
everything is at a standstill.
many people die.

1 some wonder am I the bad guy?
This is not a fire drill.
the NRA maintains a lie.
many people die.



A villanelle is a structured 19-line poem consisting of five tercets (three-line stanzas) followed by a quatrain (four-line stanza).

It features a strict rhyme scheme of ABA, with two repeating refrains
(lines 1 and 3 of the first stanza) alternating as the final lines of subsequent tercets, forming a concluding couplet.




Prompt/Week # 28

Form: Villanelle

A villanelle is a structured 19-line poem consisting of five tercets (three-line stanzas) followed by a quatrain (four-line stanza).

It features a strict rhyme scheme of ABA, with two repeating refrains
(lines 1 and 3 of the first stanza) alternating as the final lines of subsequent tercets, forming a concluding couplet.
A villanelle is a structured 19-line poem consisting of five tercets (three-line stanzas) followed by a quatrain (four-line stanza).

It features a strict rhyme scheme of ABA, with two repeating refrains
(lines 1 and 3 of the first stanza) alternating as the final lines of subsequent tercets, forming a concluding couplet.




Prompt/Week # 28

Form: Villanelle

A villanelle is a structured 19-line poem consisting of five tercets (three-line stanzas) followed by a quatrain (four-line stanza).

It features a strict rhyme scheme of ABA, with two repeating refrains
(lines 1 and 3 of the first stanza) alternating as the final lines of subsequent tercets, forming a concluding couplet.