Wanton Kisses

I gave freely of my wanton kisses

Yet a dream I could not ever replace

The fool knows not what he misses

 

Having left home for a box of wishes

Chasing but a glimpse of a pretty face

Bearing hope of her frigid kisses

 

Cruel vanity caught him in her pinches

Oh, I can never match her beauteous grace

And therefore, I shall not be his Misses

 

 

Futile tears fall like summertime drenches

To my bodice of inferior lace

For memory is not all we made with kisses

 

I wonder if she really gives him blisses

That from his thoughts my memory erase-

Until only I our brief love misses

 

 

Inside my womb are tremblings and swishes

Made by the child of my only disgrace

OH, there was life in those wanton kisses

The fool knows not what he misses

 

 

 

Author's Note

This poem is a Villanelle, a particular form of poetry with a set rhyme pattern. The repetition here is intentional.

Reviews

[MichelleSun]

Thats a ride. Sounds like a merry go round. a song. Keep writing. Good stuff!

[Steffi]

I love the repetitions in the stanza's it added such a wonderful rhythm to this piece.
It was so outstandingly penned

[Michael]

I like the complexity of the rhyme between stanzas. Not that easy to pull off and you do it nicely. I like especially the turn on the last line. It was a unexpected surprise.

[Mistral Bilgera]

i love the grieving in the ending... this is the first time i've encountered a villanelle... i thought it was some kind of a French word for lady villain, lol. :) nice writing.

[W.k.kortas]

While it's not really a villanelle per se (that requires exact repetition of the first and third lines of the opening stanza) it has the flow and thematic consistency that makes a good villanelle; a solid piece of writing as is, and it could be tweaked into a very nice villanelle.

[shandi]

This gave me goosebumps! I wasn't sure how many words one could use that rhyme with kisses without sounding cheesy, but you sure did it! Beautifully!

[Samuel Dickens]

A very nice poem, Constance. I didn't know what a "villanelle" was, but I like it. Sam