The Journey
From life's journey I have no good advice to share, though wisdom is implied by age, to know myself is all I dare. My memories of the ride are my own to bear, I write them down upon the page, from life's journey I have no good advice to share. Some stops along the way give joy, some despair, and others may enrage, to know myself is all I dare. Thinking only of the destination, I become aware of a person in a cage, from life's journey I have no good advice to share. Bound by love of things I must beware, decide when to disengage, to know myself is all I dare. I write today on tomorrow's page and solemnly declare, from life's journey I have no good advice to share, to know myself is all I dare. 19 lines Form: Villanelle 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 [as the third line of each stanza] throughout the poem, and appear together in the last couplet (last two lines). |
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