)Accept no truth seen through another's sight
But till the light of thy own sweeter seed;
Attentive is the tiller of the light!

The wise man knows the origins of blight
Begin when "want" of man is seen as "need" -
Accept no truth seen through another's sight.

Too often man is blinded by a bright
Embellished myth converted to a creed -
Attentive is the tiller of the light!

When man depends on allegory's might
To cast out fear the truth will then recede -
Accept no truth seen through another's sight.

When men of reason gather to recite
Mythology as truth the truth will bleed -
Attentive is the tiller of the light!

The masses are deluded day and night
As they upon each other's error feed.
Accept no truth seen through another's sight;
Attentive is the tiller of the light!







Author Notes
: Villanelle
The highly structured villanelle is a nineteen-line poem with two repeating rhymes and two refrains. The form is made up of five tercets followed by a quatrain. The first and third lines of the opening tercet are repeated alternately in the last lines of the succeeding stanzas; then in the final stanza, the refrain serves as the poem's two concluding lines.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/30/2010 12:23PM by easyeverett.

Good one, Tom. Anyone who has tried to write a villanelle knows that it is no easy task, nicely done.

Les