Give me something to sink my teeth into…

THIS WEEK’S WORDS come from “The Dead Are Beautiful Tonight” by Luther Hughes: stain, stillness, subtle, sky, crows, bush, back, careful, web, salt, mouth, eyes

Give me something to sink my teeth into

Your eyes, your mouth and the sky above

The stillness of the night that is true

The salt of the earth and the crows flew

As subtle as a brooding dove

Give me something to sink my teeth into

Stand back and think what we’ve gone through

All the experience we couldn’t shove

The stillness of the night that is true

Accept our quirks just to name a few

The web we’ve spun as labour of love

Give me something to sink my teeth into

Just the two of us, me and you

The love and the respect thereof

The stillness of the night that is true

Two hearts one soul we both knew

Understanding and all the above

Give me something to sink my teeth into

The stillness of the night that is true*

(c) ladyleemanila 2022

• A Villanelle is a nineteen-line poem consisting of a very specific rhyming scheme: aba aba aba aba aba abaa.
• The first and the third lines in the first stanza are repeated in alternating order throughout the poem, and appear together in the last couplet (last two lines).
• One of the most famous Villanelle is “Do not go Gentle into that Good Night” by Dylan Thomas.

For: https://lovelycurses.com/2022/10/09/morning-inspiration-writing-prompt-no-79/, http://sundayswhirligig.blogspot.com/2022/10/whirligig-391.html