Villanelle
Trevor Conway


 
I’m going to write a villanelle,
because I like the sound of the word.
A shackled poet is sure to excel.
 
I don’t care if it never sells,
is never read or never heard:
I’m going to write a villanelle.
 
A poem’s form is its shell
held around a chirping bird.
A shackled poet is sure to excel.
 
It’ll chime like a bell,
and will never be slurred,
so I’m going to write a villanelle.
 
Tangled in the rhymer’s spell,
sound draws sense from the absurd.
A shackled poet is sure to excel.
 
Whisper it – no need to yell
(or the people will be deterred):
I’m going to write a villanelle.
A shackled poet is sure to excel.










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About the Author: Trevor Conway, from Sligo, writes mainly poetry, fiction and songs. He writes on a number of themes and particularly values variety in writing. His first collection of poems, Evidence of Freewheeling, was published by Salmon Poetry in 2015. “Villanelle” is taken from his second collection, Breeding Monsters, which will be published before Christmas 2018. Trevor chose the self-publishing route this time around, and he is currently crowdfunding to produce, launch and distribute the book. Anyone interested in contributing to the project/pre-ordering a copy of Breeding Monsters, can do so here.

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