Villanelles are a form of poetry with strict rhyming patterns and repeats. Written in English for more than two hundred years, they originated in continental Europe.
Imagine if you will a while
emerging from the depths of war
a ravaged face that yet does smile
Soft victim of those that defile
tossed ragged to the charnel floor
Imagine if you will a while
From fetid pit and sordid pile
confounding all that stand before
a ravaged face that yet does smile
When paltry indiscretions rile
when neighbours keep a petty score
Imagine if you will a while
Though choking on the acid bile
through landscape sullied to the core
a ravaged face that yet does smile
The human spirit can beguile
humanity can ever soar
Imagine if you will a while
a ravaged face that yet does smile
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