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The magic of a greeting card and rose –
Such sentimental sighings they invoke!
I should not be a cynic, I suppose.
Each year the pile of cardboard refuse grows,
And bouquets send a million suitors broke:
The magic of a greeting card and rose.
Bad poetry will fall to all-time lows,
And clichés will make sobbing women choke –
I should not be a cynic, I suppose.
A sniff will risk a prick in tender nose,
But all trespasses disappear like smoke:
The magic of a greeting card and rose.
Abandonment of common sense just shows
That romance is a sad and sorry joke –
I should not be a cynic, I suppose.
In every bed a man so sweetly throws
His leg across his woman for a poke:
The magic of a greeting card and rose –
I should not be a cynic, I suppose.
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The rhyme and repetition naturally flows together 
I love it
What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
-Bertolt Brecht
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Lovely and cynical Leanne, the third last line had me in stitches, cheers. 
Oh what a wicket web we weave!
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Thanks folks
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Ah Leanne, I think you have finally found a suitable use for a villanelle, stiff and repetitive, a perfect vehicle for a sarcaustic swipe at shallow emotionality in romantic interactions, and the medium of choice. Well Donne!
Dale
How long after picking up the brush, the first masterpiece?
The goal is not to obfuscate that which is clear, but make clear that which isn't.
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02-06-2012, 07:08 AM
(This post was last modified: 02-06-2012, 07:09 AM by Leanne.)
(02-05-2012, 12:09 PM)Serah Wrote: Oh my, and to think I was going to send my application into Hallmark for a job, but you make it seem much more funner to write cynical Villanelles instead. ( which happens to be one of my favorite form poems ).
This is what the world needs more of. You've inspired me to try and compose one for Super Bowl Sunday, and Saint Patrick's day.....both, which Americans have turned into national drinking days.
Drinking and poetry go hand in hand, Serah, I look forward to the results (of the poetry, I already have a suspicion about the results of the drinking)
(02-05-2012, 01:06 PM)Erthona Wrote: Ah Leanne, I think you have finally found a suitable use for a villanelle, stiff and repetitive, a perfect vehicle for a sarcaustic swipe at shallow emotionality in romantic interactions, and the medium of choice. Well Donne!
Dale
Why Dale, anyone would think you don't like formal occasions  -- villanelles don't kill poetry, people kill poetry.
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villanelles don't kill poetry, people kill poetry.
Yes, and they are doing a damn good job of it!
How long after picking up the brush, the first masterpiece?
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This is nice, Leanne. You have a sarcastic voice sometimes that serves to make quite an impression on me. Maybe I didn't say that right, but yeah . . .
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OMG, i feel so guilty 
i'm getting my partner a samsung p7500 tablet for valintines
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Mark said: "You have a sarcastic voice sometimes that serves to make quite
an impression on me."
Sometimes?
Erthona said: "Ah Leanne, I think you have finally found a suitable use for a
villanelle, stiff and repetitive, a perfect vehicle for a sarcaustic swipe at
shallow emotionality in romantic interactions, and the medium of choice.
Well Donne!"
Yes, agree. And that Leanne! She works it well! She actually succeeded
(for the duration of my read) in suspending my disbelief that villanelles
were poetry.
a brightly colored fungus that grows in bark inclusions
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They're not just poetry, they're flavoured poetry.
You're all loonies. Good luck with your VD
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