#NaPoWriMo #2025
And last but not least, today’s (optional) prompt. Take a look at Kyle Dargan’s “Diaspora: A Narcolepsy Hymn.” This poem is a loose villanelle that uses song lyrics as its repeating lines (loose because it doesn’t rhyme). Your challenge is, like Dargan, to write a poem that incorporates song lyrics – ideally, incorporating them as opposing phrases or refrains. A few lyrics that might work, if you need inspiration:
“Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?”
“I read the news today, oh boy…”
“The world is a vampire…”
“At first, I was afraid, I was petrified”
“There is a house in New Orleans”
“You shake my nerves, and you rattle my brain”
“I went down down down, and the flames went higher.”
“The future’s so bright, I gotta wear shades.”
“Nothing ain’t nothing, but it’s free.”
If you’re interested in learning more about villanelles, you can find some good information on the Poetry Foundation website.
Happy writing!
**I love the Villanelle form and by using two lines of song lyrics that rhyme I created the 'a' rhyme and then the non lyrics 'b' rhyme and off I went not forgetting to credit the songwriter, in this case, the late, great, Freddie Mercury!**
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No Escape
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?
It goes round and round your head.
Caught in a landslide, no escape from reality.
Do we want to escape from our sanity?
Stay angry at the world to keep ahead.
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?
Do we live in a hologram of insanity?
Wars rage with constant bloodshed.
Caught in a landslide, no escape from reality.
We think we rule the earth, such vanity!
Who created us, who wove the thread?
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?
Do we live in a multiverse, a profanity,
On constant repeat, in a state of dread.
Caught in a landslide, no escape from reality.
Or are our lives a complete inanity?
Should we curl up and go back to bed.
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?
Caught in a landslide, no escape from reality.
©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2025
©✍️🎶SongLyrics/BohemianRhapsody/FreddieMercury
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