This Poem was Submitted By: Joanne M Uppendahl On Date: 2003-03-22 15:04:12 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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Curtain Call

The act of dying isn’t hard to learn; so many endings are, in fact, rehearsed and like a play, the final act adjourns. We simply read our play unlike the first, opening scene and ending quite reversed. The act of dying isn’t hard to learn. We hold our closing speech in hand, unlearned, remote from us, consider aging cursed; but like a play, the final act adjourns. Can't those who understudy death still yearn to see their deathbed audience immersed? (No, the act of dying isn’t hard to learn.) In fact, we practice in our short sojourn to see the end of life as best, not worst; so like a play, the final act adjourns. In point of fact, some live with unconcern, for death can quench a quiet thirst. The act of dying isn’t hard to learn and like a play, the final act adjourns.

Copyright © March 2003 Joanne M Uppendahl

Additional Notes:
A villanelle, with the requisite nineteen lines, using two rhymed lines as refrains --and just two rhyme sounds throughout. The order in which the rhymed refrain lines appear is set, also.


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