challenge :: villanelle

scrawled 1.14.2010 by miss.abi | E-mail this post

A Villanelle for Haiti- From a poetry challenge

A chorus of mourning, sung in refrain
as from the bowels came the shaking.
In Pandora's wake, would hope remain?

Buildings buckling beneath the strain
of the land's furious quaking.
A chorus of mourning, sung in refrain

Streets splitting like a single vein,
ruptured open for the taking
In Pandora's wake, would hope remain?

Cries fell upon the wind in vain
through the night, their echoes snaking
A chorus of mourning, sung in refrain

Fear blanketing the shattered terrain
left crippled from the forsaking
In Pandora's wake, would hope remain?

Rivers of tears raged on as rain
from hearts slowly breaking
A chorus of mourning, sung in refrain
In Pandora's wake, would hope remain?