Melody Online [ Villanelle] Formerly: Poet Teacher

"Listen to your inner voice today."

echoes reverberate in the night,

"Your words have much to say."

Advise from a seasoned poet,

hidden from my sight

"Listen to your inner voice today."

Prose, sestinas, and villanelles

never got my sonnet quite right

"Your words have much to say."

Repetends, anaphoras,

similes , and metaphors, try to make it tight.

"Listen to your inner voice today."

Commas, enjambments, caesura

and end stopped, are my plights

"Your words have much to say."

"Listen to your inner voice, my prot`ege

"Someday you'll reach poetic heights,

"Listen to your inner voice, today,

your words have much to say."