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My first attempt at writing a Villanille. I know it's somewhat outside the box, but it's poetry. So this has no labels other than its a poem.




Love Is A Tree

Love is a tree changing each season
Showing infinte cycles for display
A portrait of phases and their reason

 

Spring brings buds of hope for the damson
Flowering fragrant life anew
Love is a tree changing each season

 

Summer leaves of cool green beckon
All the world around its shade
A portrait of phases and their reason

 

Autum brings a colorful vision
A vivid palette of  boundless beauty
Love is a tree changing each season

 

Winter's iced bare limbs lay frozen
Showing the truth of what it is
A portrait of phases and their reason

 

Down below the roots seek their mission
A natural foundation strong and true
Love is a tree changing each season
A portrait of phases and their reason

 

Kathy Lockhart
4/25/08





Poetry by Kathy Lockhart
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Written on 2008-04-26 at 05:26

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Jamsbo Rockda The PoetBay support member heart!
A wonderful analogy. Trees are probably more stable though, with roots in the ground and not the air :)
2016-06-02


Keiko
Very well written Kathy. I love this poem so very much and it shows that you do in fact know what love is and how love is. Keep up the good work! Your friend always.

Keiko
2011-02-13


Damon
What is a Villanella or however that is spelled?
Damon
2010-03-19


Nils Teodor The PoetBay support member heart!
Beautiful!
To let love flow
from your heart
and gratefully embrace
each season.
2009-10-14


chuma okafor
nice rhyme pattern, love is...
2009-03-03


Sid Gardner
Love the structure of this one.The tercets with a repeating last line produces rythm.Also the poignant closing couplet signs off nicely.
Sid x.
2009-02-25


Damon
Hello my dear friend,
As you know, I don't know one form from another. So I don't know if it is a Villanelle or not, but I do know that it is good. No; actually, it is great. A wonderfully written poem by you dear lady.
Your friend,
Damon
2008-12-31


weirdzarun
Rain song by Zeppelin: "These are the seasons of emotion, and like the wind, they rise and fall." I like the way you put it, but I love the way you know it.
2008-12-25


Shanmugam
To compare love to seasons is a unique simili. Well penned, well rhimed. Shanmugam
2008-08-08


Phyllis J. Rhodes
Stunning, gripping, awe inspiring. This shows the depth and breadth of your talent.
2008-06-12


Lavender
Sweetly said, with lovely images that reach out and touch the reader with a warm hand. Your poetry always makes me glad.
2008-06-01



Classic and very beautifully written indeed!
2008-05-01


V.V.Ramesh
well written kathy :) simply superb
2008-04-30


Peter J. Kautsky
reminds me of Emily Dickinson with meaning floating in and out as a ghost. pete
2008-04-27



A bountiful love so true...beautiful Mom thank's for sharing..kisses
2008-04-26


lastromantichero The PoetBay support member heart!
Darling katherine this beautiful villanelle is the enchanting result of a love nurtured in your soul it is a wonderful way of cherishing that love and the villanelle format adds to the beauty of the text i am reminded oof the beaty of Almond blossom time, spring anew and the devastating beauty of you xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxwell done ylkly vm
2008-04-26


Anne Westlund
a beautiful poem! so true too.

Anne
2008-04-26


Amir
Katherine - Beautiful diagram of love, beautiful explanation too. Tree of love have to grow always. Thanks for the lines, as it may mold someone to understand the vision of love instead of wrong thoughts. Hub of poem is
Down below the roots seek their mission
A foundation true and strong
Love is a tree changing each season
A portrait of phases and their reason
Regards. Amir
2008-04-26