The amazing Punam is the Poet of the Week. Her prompt for the W3 Poetry Prompt #139 is to write a Villanelle with the word Celebration in it.
To find out more about Punam’s villanelle poetry prompt, please click below.
Details of the Villanelle poetry prompt
Punam’s prompt guidelines
1. Form: Villanelle;
2. Include the word ‘celebration’
Villanelle?
A villanelle is a nineteen-line poem with six stanzas and a specific rhyme scheme:
A1bA2 / abA1 / abA2 / abA1 / abA2 / abA1A2
In a villanelle, the first (A1) and third (A2) lines of the first stanza are repeated alternately as the final lines of subsequent stanzas, and both reappear together as the closing couplet. All first lines of the remaining stanzas rhyme (a) with these two repeated lines, while the second lines of all six stanzas share a separate rhyme (b).
I wrote my villanelle in response to Punam’s prompt. Please enjoy my hangover! Cheers! 🥂
Hangover
Oh, my head hurts from the celebration last night
We drank too many glasses of Champagne
I supped too much and I got quite tight
Some say I was high as a kite!
Never again, no never again
Oh, my head hurts from the celebration last night
I can’t see straight… I don’t feel right
Inside my brain’s a thumping pain
I drank too much and I got quite tight
I look a fright—an awful sight!
I zig-zagged home in the pouring rain
Oh, my head hurts from the celebration last night
It’s embarrassing—I don’t quite know what to write,
I don’t know what to say… I can’t explain,
I supped too much and I got quite tight
From now on I shall stay upright
I will abstain!
Oh, my head hurts from the celebration last night
I drank too much and I got quite tight
Lesley Scoble, December 2024
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CREDITS
Enormous thanks to Punam for her inspiring celebratory prompt.
My gratitude, as always. to the Maestro, David, The Skeptics Kaddish.
My thanks to the bottle of Champagne that helped inspire my villanelle.
(btw. My birthday is coming up—and should anyone feel extravagant and generous, my favourite Champagne is the Ace of Spades!)
Last but by no means least, my thanks to you, for reading! I wish you health and happiness in the New Year! 🍾🥳
Lesley lives in the City of London Square Mile. An artist, actor and sculptor (her first ceramic sculpture won the V&A inspired by… Award). Scenic artist & book illustrator, playwright (her musical play, Rapscallion performed in inner city schools and theatre school); TV dancer; mime artist; Animator and illustrator for TV production. Set up Pinecone Studios Ltd and IIMSI Ltd drama and filmmaking workshops in London – producing award-winning films made by children.
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