Still Reaching ~ a villanelle for Mindful Poetry 2011, Poetry Month April 27

 

Rules

• Write a villanelle according to the links provided Essential:
  19-lines long,
  5 tercets and 1 quatrain 
  1st and 3rd line of poem are the repeating lines
  rhyme scheme is a-b-a for the tercetsand a-b-a-a for the quatrain

• Post to Mindful Poetry, The Rogues Gallery and any other group you'd like
• Tag with MP2011
• Publish date must be April 26th
• Prompt: use a picture from this post, please click on photos attached to this post for title and artist as well as some pictures that I didn't publish within the post

• Follow the rules provided in Mindful Poetry's Contest Invitation

 

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Like two gibbons reaching for the moon

I’m hanging by a thread so high above

Our Mother Earth which I’ll be leaving soon

Reaching as for magical balloon

My aspirations far beyond a shove

So like two gibbons reaching for the moon

So little time; a boost would be a boon

Before I bid my adieau to those I love

And Mother Earth which I’ll be leaving soon

I’ll not let go, though Earth’s companion moon

Remains beyond the reach of hand and glove

Like two gibbons reaching for the moon

Instead I’ll cling here, singing lofty tune

Until the day when like a snow-white dove

From Mother Earth which I’ll be leaving soon

I spread my wings and climb above the dune

Of long neglected sands and gaze above

So like two gibbons reaching for the moon

From Mother Earth which I’ll be leaving soon.

 

 

Image:  Two gibbons reaching for the moon

~Ito Jakachu~