The Promise

[lnhammer]

Another time—
then, you’ll agree,
I’ll make it rhyme.

It’s not a crime
to let it be
another time

to get the chime
off ringingly.
I’ll make it rhyme,

a paradigm
where some sounds see
each other. Time

will age sublime
what, easily,
I will make rhyme,

I’m sure—no grime,
slime, grit, debris.
Another time,
I’ll make it rhyme.

—15 August 2002

Known privately as "the narrow villanelle." Attempts to write an even skinnier one, in monometer, have failed like failing things from Skipallclassestan.

---L.

Comments

[oracne]

I like this.

[lnhammer]

I'm fond of it, despite it kinda losing traction in the fifth stanza.

---L.