Tell Me About Life

The De-Stresser

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The De-stresser

Though life often gives us stacks of dominoes
That tumble whenever they become unglued.
Our beaches provide us with ample heave-ho’s.

Breathing sea air will surmount most of those woes
While picnicking on French bread and seafood,
Though life often gives us stacks of dominoes.

The peace of the ocean will wash away foes
If you walk through the sand, your feet in the nude.
Our beaches provide us with ample heave-ho’s.

Sit down in the sand and sculpt several chateaus
Whenever life’s strife interferes with your mood,
Though life often gives us stacks of dominoes.

The sky in the west produces nightly shows,
Which surely improve your day’s attitude.
Our beaches provide us with ample heave-ho’s.

So when your life has too many to-and-fro’s,
And you feel you’ll bust without more solitude,
Though life often gives us stacks of dominoes,
Our beaches provide us with ample heave-ho’s.


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This was a Writer's Cramp prompt. Assignment: Write a villanelle about the beach.

(Information about the Villanelle, by Bianca:)
The villanelle is a French form and not the easiest one to handle. Five triplets and a quatrain are forming the Villanelle. But don’t think that is it… no way! The Villanelle has a rhyme structure…

aba
aba
aba
aba
aba
abaa

But we are not there yet . . . while the villanelle has repetons! Repetive lines, coming back in the following stanza, interlocking the poem in an unique way.

The first line in the first stanza is coming back, as the third line of the second stanza and fourth stanza

The third line of the first stanza is coming back as the third line in the third stanza and the fifth stanza.

In the quatrain, the first line of the first stanza is the third one of the quatrain, and the third line of the first stanza comes back as the forth line of the quatrain.