My Poetry: Villanelle: Sottobosco: Gen
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stonepicnicking_okapiTitle: Sotto bosco [Undergrowth in Italian]
Poetic Form: villanelle
Length: 105
For:mafief Happy Birthday!
Inspired by: A sotto bosco with mushrooms, butterflies, a dragonfly, a lizard, and a snake by Otto Marseus van Schrieck [below].
Upon the teeming forest floor,
cabal of mushrooms stand, and lie,
on fragile stems, immortal spore.
They’re wrought in oils like kings of yore,
in sotto bosco portrait, nigh,
upon the teeming forest floor.
While lizard, asp prepare for war,
the sure-capped reign and petrify
on fragile stems, immortal spore.
In sotto voce, shadows pour
and drip while ghost-wings flutterfly
upon the teeming forest floor.
What will be, what were before
‘are still! alive!’ their thin gills cry
on fragile stems, immortal spore.
Come, little ones, come, let’s explore,
what clever, curious eyes can spy
upon the teeming forest floor,
on fragile stems: IMMORTAL SPORE!
Poetic Form: villanelle
Length: 105
For:
mafief Happy Birthday!Inspired by: A sotto bosco with mushrooms, butterflies, a dragonfly, a lizard, and a snake by Otto Marseus van Schrieck [below].
Upon the teeming forest floor,
cabal of mushrooms stand, and lie,
on fragile stems, immortal spore.
They’re wrought in oils like kings of yore,
in sotto bosco portrait, nigh,
upon the teeming forest floor.
While lizard, asp prepare for war,
the sure-capped reign and petrify
on fragile stems, immortal spore.
In sotto voce, shadows pour
and drip while ghost-wings flutterfly
upon the teeming forest floor.
What will be, what were before
‘are still! alive!’ their thin gills cry
on fragile stems, immortal spore.
Come, little ones, come, let’s explore,
what clever, curious eyes can spy
upon the teeming forest floor,
on fragile stems: IMMORTAL SPORE!
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