Ever noticed how, as you get older, you begin to look like your parents?
Villanelle
I'm sleeping with my mother-in-law,
My wife is sleeping with my father...
The twists and turns life has in store!
Last night my wife began to snore
But in the gloom I saw her ma there...
I'm sleeping with my mother-in-law!
She's never slept with me before
This is bizarre. She's gone too far. The
twists and turns life has in store.
I'm tempted further to explore...
No laws against it, are there?
I'm sleeping with my mother-in-law.
But she's fast asleep. Oh, what a bore!
She's still as a cadaver...
The twists and turns life has in store.
Shaving next morn' I clearly saw
My pa's features through the lather.
He'd been sleeping with 'my mother-in-law'...
What twists and turns life has in store!
A villanelle has only two rhyme sounds. The first and third lines of the first stanza are rhyming refrains that alternate as the third line in each successive stanza and form a couplet at the close. A villanelle is nineteen lines long, consisting of five tercets and one concluding quatrain.
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Comments: 13
I would not flag this but I'll be surprised if someone else doesn't. SOmeone who only reads the first few stanzas.
Clever concept, Mike. Thanks.
I would feature it on Poet's Weekly Muse.
I used to look SO much like my father but have become to look a bit more like my mother.
Just free speech. This is America, at least it was the last time I checked.
Thanks, Mike.
TEN!