Villanelle

I wrote the following entirely in jest as I wished to try my hand at writing a villanelle (a villanelle is a poem that has a specific and rigid structure). I wrote this to a friend (whose name I have replaced below with _dash) for friendship day.

A Friendship-Day email

In this email, _dash, I’m sending you today,
Which may be a day late but still,
Do, to this struggling poet, some attention pay.

Don’t be deterred or put off, is all I pray,
Even if the poetry lacks skill,
In this email, _dash, I’m sending you today…

Relax yaar and forever do bindaas stay,
That is my message, so chill…
Do, to this struggling poet, some attention pay.

And I wish you a happy friendships day,
(a belated greeting from my dil),
In this email, _dash, I’m sending you today…

Do you deserve a poem? No way!
But as I have some time to kill,
Do, to this struggling poet, some attention pay.

Writing a villanelle is no child’s play,
But I have enjoyed that very thrill,
In this email, _dash, I’m sending you today…
Do, to this struggling poet, some attention pay.

P.S. If you’ve read all the terrible attempt at poetry above, you deserve to read the following masterpiece as recompense for the torture:
http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/38.html