#1 - Feeling Down

You're feeling down and you may need a spell

to get you through this February day,

so why not try a cheeky villanelle?

You know that winter feeling all too well:

the sky, your thoughts, your outlook – all are grey.

You're feeling down and you may need a spell:

some magic chant to lyrically dispel

those mental barricades that bar your way,

so why not write a cheeky villanelle?

A poet in his lonely citadel

rejecting every line as tired cliché

I’m feeling down and I may need a spell,

just hanging with inspiring personnel

(in my case that's Leanne and Russ and Fay).

Perhaps I’ll write a cheeky villanelle?

I guess I can't rely on zinfandel

to get me through this February day.

I’m feeling down, but I don’t need a spell,

cuz I just wrote a cheeky villanelle.

AWB