EIF Poetry Challenge #13
Hobbo: Have you finished that Villanelle for Ingrid’s challenge yet.
Dauphy: Well I have, but I’ve just read hers, and it’s very good!
Hobbo: Doesn’t matter, it’s your first one!
Dauphy: I’m not very good with all the rules either!
Hobbo: We’ll check it together then.
Dauphy: Thank’s mate!
Hobbo: Fourteen lines?
Dauphy: Check.
Hobbo: Five tercets?
Dauphy: Are they like faucets?
Hobbo: (laughing)Stanzas with three lines. Five three line stanzas?
Dauphy: Check.
Hobbo: And a quatrain, a stanza with four lines?
Dauphy: Check.
Hobbo: Rhyming scheme ABA, ABA, ABA, ABA, ABA, ABAA?
Dauphy: Check
Hobbo: First line repeated end of 2nd and 4th stanzas, and 3rd line in 4th stanza?
Dauphy: Check
Hobbo: Third line repeated end of 3rd, 5th and 6th stanzas?
Dauphy: Check
Hobbo: Submit before 12th January 2021
Dauphy: Check.
Hobbo: Here it is then……………….
Who's afraid of the big bad wolf? Cowardly killer, dubbed number nineteen Despicable, your sick form of roulette Mindless bug, reaping death, obscene. We'll wash our hands,we'll fight you clean Whilst there is hope, we are not beaten yet Cowardly killer, dubbed number nineteen. So many bodies, it's almost routine Shadowy form, with no silhouette Mindless bug, reaping death, obscene. Perverted agenda, to kill human beings Fresh strains now to aid and abet Cowardly killer, dubbed number nineteen. Locked down again, stuck, quarantine Not beaten though, you're a martinet Mindless bug, reaping death, obscene. We'll whup your arse with the new vaccine What use then, is your global threat? Cowardly killer, dubbed number nineteen Mindless bug, reaping death, obscene.
Dauphy: Blimey, I’m exhausted.
Hobbo: All we have to do now is link it to the EIF website.
Dauphy: That could be a problem! You know what we’re like with technology.
Hobbo: I’ll do it. You go for a lie down!
Dauphy: I’ll just have a gravy bone first!…
Jeez, can you send him down to help me? Although plenty of my poems are vanilla, so I’m almost there.
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😂😂😂 She’s a villain is that Ellie, isn’t she!
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Well done Dauphy! A splendid and topical addition to the villanelle collection. Thank you both for taking part 🙏
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😂 Thank you! I’ll give him a tummy rub!
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He definitely deserves it!
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