Summer Villanelle by Wendy Cope

[Esqpainting]

Jane, this is awesome!

[dreamerking]

Selima hill

[TothAnubis]

Thank you so much.

Very great !

Greetings from Germany

Norbert

[GilesConradWatson]

Intriguing... It's nice to be useful, even unwittingly :o)

[JaneLearmonth]

Indeed :+)

[GilesConradWatson]

What a brilliant reading. The villanelle structure, with its repetitions, builds up to such an intensity here, so that by the end of it, the borders between love and obsession seem transgressed. Is it a Fatal Attraction moment, or is it not? What is wonderful about your reading is that I'm not quite sure what is the answer to that question.

[JaneLearmonth]

Oh Giles I smile, I smile. Your timing is perfect. You have just unwittingly helped me enormously. :)

[andrewnorris1]

Just had to come back to this one again. You really brought out the passion and despair in this poem. A whole drama in so few lines.

[andrewnorris1]

Tremendous rendition, beautifully expressed.

[JaneLearmonth]

Gosh, thank you :)

[happyfluke1]

damn!

[VisionGhostPoet]

Extraordinary, absolutely alluring with such great sweet temptation. You could look into ones eyes and speak to their soul.