on vulture’s wings, once soaring high
where meadows where, just ash remain
as memories are on display
for sake of progress you can buy
to sacrifice and have it slain
the vulture’s wings, once soaring high
in aluminum you’re set to fly
consuming earth within that plane
as memories are on display
and down below our planet dies
humanity will be the bane
of vulture’s wings, once soaring high
you listen as the mountains cry
with blood-rain in relentless pain
as memories are on display
my aching throat is sore and dry
but still you say there’s more to gain
from vulture’s wings, once soaring high
when memories are on display
Chair With the Wings of a Vulture, 1960, Salvador Dali
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excellent take on the image!
Feel the hope here…maybe making new positive memories..if we will ~ very cool form ‘Villanelle’ – very musical, knowing your voice I hear it 🙂
I’m always knocked sideways by anyone who can write a villanelle and double points for one where the content isn’t sacrificed to the style. Lovely! Thank you for commenting on my Magpie 🙂
Love the juxtaposition of the primordial bird in the sky pinned against the modernity of the aluminum plane in the sky as “down below our planet dies”. You write awesome Villanelles, Björn. I have just finished writing one (so taken – and inspired – as I was, by your “The Veils of Our Mirrored Maze – Villanelle”). They are very tricky and, as you have (once again) blown me away, with this one, my little attempt will remain in hiding – awaiting some (considerable) fine tuning, I think.
Before writing my first Villanelle I wrote a lot of triolets.. They have the same challenge, but are much easier. What’s difficult is to get that repeated line adopting into the new meaning each time it’s used…
Bjorn, I really liked this it worked so well with the picture prompt..I always enjoy your poetry.
Villanelle for a vulture! i love it.
I love this form… and ‘memories on display’ is beautiful! You write incredible poetry, Bjorn!
you have done justice both to the form and the topic, beautifully said
Lovely though sad piece. Let’s hope we don’t completely kill our planet.
Susan
Tough form to play with with but you seem to have captured the foreboding mood of the piece well
Great work on the form together with creative imagery and judicious language give this lovely piece a strong message. Nice Björn.
I feel the last stanza to be very poignant…
… and all in the name of progress…. who’s may I ask
Always a pleasure to read your villanelle. This is an interesting interpretation of the quirky picture.
Really like the plane as vulture analogy, circling the ill planet, burning all that fuel! It makes vultures look like angels.
Wow, really loving this one Bjorn. So much in this.
Villanelle and steam punk… nice combo!
Fantastic villanelle. So much depends on the lines repeated. Yours are flipping awesome. Thank you.
Yikes. You use the symbols and the villanelle form powerfully . Thanks. K.
from vulture’s wings, once soaring high
when memories are on display
Memories are not just a passing fancy. Memories can certainly be a guide in times of loss
Hank
Love the form….sadly there is so much darkness in our past and present…great write!
Thank you Villain , i feel Bjorne again !
I love villanelles. You managed to have both form and function!
Really nice…you crafted this so well with a message quite poignant. My favorite is the second tercet.
Well done…a villanelle is harder to write than one might think…