Abandoned

PROMPT:


April is National Poetry Month! The prompt for April is to find a form of poetry you've never written before and both describe it and write an example. No maximum line count. You will get 10k per entry, 3 entries max. Please copy and paste the bold prompt below into your entry (contest request). You can find your poetry forms anywhere, but for your convenience, here's a list of 168 different forms. https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-poetry/list-of-50-poetic-forms-for-po...


. Prompt: Find a form of poetry you've never written before and both describe it and write an example.

Written for "The Whatever Contest." "The Whatever Contest -- Closed for Now" 

Word/Line Count: 19


My bed is cold without you there.
I miss your loving arms.
The sheets feel stiff, damp, cold and bare,

I am missing you and all your charms.
You’ve gone, I know not where.
You had me in hands, your palm.

I thought you loved. You didn’t care.
Not once did you portent alarm
To warn me. You were not fair,

I was easy to disarm.
You simply left me in despair.
Perhaps you think you’ve caused no harm,

That all in love and war is fair?
You took your love, left me unarmed.
Left, gone. My grief I couldn’t share.

My spirit broke. Although physically unharmed,
I was sore of heart, I almost felt it tear.
But with care and love my heart I’ve darned
With golden threads of time. A lesson I have learned.

Poetry form
Villanelle
What is a villanelle in a poem?
A French verse form consisting of five three-line stanzas and a final quatrain, with the first and third lines of the first stanza repeating alternately in the following stanzas. These two refrain lines form the final couplet in the quatrain.