Repost: Transports of Delight

dVerse prompts us to write a Villanelle.

Here's one I prepared earlier:

Transports of Delight

Gently they are rocking at evening rest,

Tarped in blue, moored for the night,

These romantic vessels of love finessed.

Coal black ferries to a town possessed;

Venetian transports of delight.

Gently they are rocking at evening rest.

Gondoliers, traditionally dressed

Sing songs of love, of passion bright,

On these romantic vessels of love finessed.

Young women doing what they do best,

Playing Princess to their kneeling knight.

Gently they are rocking at evening rest.

How many a girl has acquiesced

To heartfelt deliveries of a lover’s plight

On these romantic vessels of love finessed?

Sleek confidants to the mating rite —

(Can we, should we, will we...tonight?)

Gently they are rocking at evening rest

These romantic vessels of love finessed.

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© J Cosmo Newbery 2012

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