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  Submission Name: A Villanelle in Homage to E Bishop
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| Author: | Lerlim | | ASL Info: | 48/M/France
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This is derivative poetry. I don't know if it's any good, but it was great fun to make. I imagine that this is how the people who really like to do crossword puzzles feel when they've finished a hard one (though I personally cannot stand them...)
If you don't know it, here is Elizabeth Bishop's "One Art", one of the greatest Villanelles ever written, in my opinion.
One Art
The art of losing isn't hard to master;
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster.
Lose something every day. Accept the fluster
of lost door keys, the hour badly spent.
The art of losing isn't hard to master.
Then practice losing farther, losing faster:
places, and names, and where it was you meant
to travel. None of these will bring disaster.
I lost my mother's watch. And look! my last, or
next-to-last, of three loved houses went.
The art of losing isn't hard to master.
I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster,
some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent.
I miss them, but it wasn't a disaster.
---Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture
I love) I shan't have lied. It's evident
the art of losing's not too hard to master
though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.
-- Elizabeth Bishop
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A Villanelle in Homage to E Bishop
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A Humble Homage to E.B., with thanks to P.H.
The villanelle's so hard an art to master.
I tried to win his heart through sonnets yet
my poor attempts did clearly spell disaster.
"One Art" had thrilled his soul so, aiming vaster,
I tracked her steps. Oh how could I forget?
the game of love's so hard an art to master:
faced with disdain, it's no use running faster.
A lover less naïve could safely bet
my poor attempts were sure to spell disaster.
Why thus gesticulate if but to bluster
a fully-flawed unwarranted duet?
Seduction is so hard an art to master.
Failing to learn the art of loss I muster
frail words around me and refuse to let
my poor attempts fall flat and spell disaster.
Where marble stood: a replica of plaster
and, as for love, I've but an empty net.
The villanelle's so hard an art to master:
my poor attempt could only spell disaster.
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