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A villanelle about Betty and Stella and their coffee shop. |
This is the tale of the Coffee Shop Friends; Friend-Sips the name of the business they own. Open at dawn though at dark service ends. Betty and Stella are hip to new trends; they do this so their shop will be well known. This is the tale of the Coffee Shop Friends. They send to Ceylon for all the new blends; on the computer, that Skype telephone. Open at dawn though at dark service ends. Stella got testy yet soon made amends; Betty was perplexed by Stella’s harsh tone. This is the tale of the Coffee Shop Friends. Betty pays heed to the money she spends; Stella thinks they need not cut to the bone. Open at dawn though at dark service ends. Still they are happy with all the shop lends; hardly a grimace or mid-morning moan. This is the tale of the Coffee Shop Friends; open at dawn though at dark service ends. 19 Lines (Villanelle) Writer’s Cramp Winner 11-14-19 (The villanelle is a nineteen-line poem with two rhymes throughout, consisting of five tercets and a quatrain, with the first and third lines of the opening tercet recurring alternately at the end of the other tercets and with both repeated at the close of the concluding quatrain.) |
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