💜✍️NaPoWriMo – 30 poems in 30 days – April 2026 – Day 23 – Seeking Light✍️💜

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Speaking of forms, today’s (optional) prompt takes its inspiration from Kiki Petrosino’s loose villanelle, “Nursery.” Try your hand today at your own take on a villanelle, and have the poem end on a question.

Happy writing!

Redacted to get the form right! 🙂

A VILLANELLE – SEEKING LIGHT

We humans are always seeking light.
That goes on and on, perhaps forever.
Why are we so scared of the night?

The end of the tunnel sort of light,
A light that no love is able to sever.
We humans are always seeking light.

Why does insomnia hold us so tight?
When will sleep come, whatsoever,
Why are we so scared of the night?

Yet into this darkness, I take flight
Like a phoenix rising up, however,
We humans are always seeking light.

Shadow self should have its own rite,
To claim its duality without a fight.
Why are we so scared of the night?

Angels are the harbingers of light,
But the moon is the queen of the night.
We humans are always seeking light.
Why are we so scared of the night?

©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2026