Villanelle Practice #3: An Evening before Autumn Arrives

Blesséd melody of pink and grape
curtains drawn, table set waiting on
laughing children, out too late.

Square microcosms glow through
soft, clean laundry hung idly in a
Blesséd melody of pink and blue.

A cool breeze smarts to mark the date,
making exposed limbs bounce on
laughing children, out too late.

If time were to stop and pause regret
you could sip the sweetest sky scented like
A Blesséd melody of blue and violet

You'll sleep tonight with windows agape
remembering a time when you were too part of
the laughing children, out too late.

Music dims and the TV hovers,
Fog rolls in and streetlights create a
Blesséd melody of indigo covers for
the laughing children, out too late.

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