Excellent Are you making the best use of your time? Time, Like a Butterfly by GeraldShuler A Villanelle writing prompt entry

Time, like a butterfly, is flitting away uncaptured, unhampered, unknown; while we, armed with nets, try and try to betray the time that escaped from our lives yesterday. Bow low your heads, humbly bemoan; time, like a butterfly, is flitting away. The gifts God has given were meant for today, each moment His light should be shown while we, armed with nets, try and try to betray. Can your loved ones hear things that you never say? It's too great a task to postpone... time, like a butterfly, is flitting away. When you are asked to explain, what will you say? Try explaining how time had flown while we, armed with nets, tried and tried to betray. Respond to your call while it's still called "Today"; it's what you have already known. Time, like a butterfly, is flitting away while we, armed with nets, try and try to betray. Writing Prompt Write a Villanelle on any subject. No pictures. No special fonts. Just a poem. Have your words convey your message. If you are not familiar with the Villanelle poem style: A Villanelle has two refrains/repeats, R1/R2 that rhyme with "a" and another rhyming line "b" It contains 5 tercets (three lines) and 1 quatrain (four lines). R1a / b / R2a , tercets #1 a / b / R1a, tercets #2 a / b / R2a , tercets #3 a / b / R1a, tercets #4 a / b / R2a , tercets #5 a / b / R1a / R2a, quatrain Probably a Great example of a modern Villanelle is: "Do not go gentle into that good night" by Dylan Thomas. See poets.org for his poem: https://poets.org/poem/do-not-go-gentle-good-night

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