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Rated: E · Poetry · Romance/Love · #1950551
The heart knows what it needs ... (Form: Villanelle)
A Deserted Heart

A heart deserted seeks a gleam,
a lambent promise in the night,
when hope seems just a fading dream.

Joyful images can’t redeem
my soul from loneliness’s blight.
A heart deserted seeks a gleam.

Chained in the darkness, I blaspheme;
I curse the veil that blinds my sight
when hope seems just a fading dream.

As spirits deep within me scheme
forgotten memories ignite.
A heart deserted seeks a gleam

Shedding shackles raises esteem
as new horizons blossom bright
when hope seems just a fading dream

Defeating lost hope’s silent scream,
now comes within a guiding light.
A heart deserted seeks a gleam
when hope seems just a fading dream.


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An entry for "Adaptive Writers Contest Open in new Window.
Line Limit: 30
Line Count: 22
Form: Villanelle A Villanelle is a nineteen-line poem consisting of a very specific rhyming scheme: A1 b A2 / a b A1 / a b A2 / a b A1 / a b A2 / a b A1 A2. The first and the third lines in the first stanza are repeated in alternating order [as the third line of each stanza] throughout the poem, and appear together in the last couplet (last two lines). The villanelle has no established meter, although most nineteenth-century villanelles have used trimeter or tetrameter and most twentieth-century villanelles use pentameter.

*BookOpen* lambent (lam*bent) - softly bright or radiant

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