Villanelle
A villanelle is a poetic form that uses repeated lines and a strict rhyming pattern throughout its 19 lines, grouped into six separate stanzas. Villanelles have a lyrical quality, creating a song-like poem with structured lines.
To Shi, by Mnieq Polk
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Frog by Gelissa Phillips My love for you is like a frog It likes to change and grow So perplexed as fog I feel the joy in your deep-minded bog Leaves me wordless like, oh My love for you is like a frog I study my emotions for you like a prog And for you, I will never go So perplexed as fog I drink you in like a grog It messes with my mind flow My love for you is like a frog Your feeling cures my ague But your feeling isn’t always known So perplexed as fog It really depends on the jog Even so My love for you is like a frog Even in our prolog I will always know That My love for you is like a frog So perplexed as fog |