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Shirley Bunyan

Updated: Thu, 4 Apr 2024 06:56 pm

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Biography

I am a young at heart English lady who has been in love with poetry all my life. All types of poetry interest me, from the darkest depths to the totally ridiculous; rhyming or free, long or short. I also like messing around with video, so have set some of my work to a visual medium. Just having fun!

Samples

He Challenged Me To write A Villanelle He challenged me to write a Villanelle. ‘Too, difficult’, I pouted with dismay. He clearly doesn’t know me very well. He wants to criticise me: I can tell. I didn’t like his manner or the way he challenged me to write a Villanelle. And yet, I’m tough, I work in personnel. I’ll write a Villanelle without delay. He clearly doesn’t know me very well. I scribble, scream, throw down my pen and yell. Yet he, methinks, must live to rue the day he challenged me to write a Villanelle. My confidence begins to rise and swell. He’s smugly watching from a way away. He clearly doesn’t know me very well. The marriage is a joke: in fact it’s hell. He’ll get the papers through the door today. He challenged me to write a Villanelle. He clearly doesn’t know me very well.

He Challenged Me To Write A Villanelle

He challenged me to write a Villanelle. His attitude was crass. I said, “OK.” He clearly doesn’t know me very well. He wants to criticise me: I can tell. I’m resentful of his manner and the way he thinks I cannot write a Villanelle. And yet, I’m tough, I work in personnel. I’ll write a Villanelle without delay. I’m glad he doesn’t know me very well. My brain is spinning like a carousel, yet confident he’ll live to rue the day he thought I couldn’t write a Villanelle. Secure in my reluctance to rebel. he’s watching smugly from his hideaway. Thank God he doesn’t know me very well. He’s blithely unaware of my farewell. The papers will be through the door today. He’ll know that I can write a Villanelle and find he didn’t know me very well.

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Anthony Emmerson

Tue 9th Feb 2016 17:23

Welcome Shirley, love the villanelle!

Regards,

A.E.

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