A villanelle about - O! Surprise! - teaching poets and writers the art of writing by people who - O! Surprise of Surprises! - themselves do not wish to or cannot write....

Villanelle : Teach not a dog how not to bark
(This dog the mawkish villanelle baulks)
.........................................................by T. Wignesan

Teach not a dog how not to bark
...Dogs bark for a lark in the dark
When Masters mawkish dreams embark

Do dogs bark to ape human talk
...Or wake Masters to take side-walk
Teach not a dog how not to bark

Each dog howls up some Jack’s Bean Stalk
...For the wolf in the dog must stalk
When Masters mawkish dreams embark

Do dogs bark to make the dingo baulk
...At some sick Master’s leash-end talk
Teach not a dog how not to bark

Each dog lifts its leg at some bark
...Don’t preachers too leak after dark
When Masters mawkish dreams embark

Every dog knows it must bark
...Every dog knows its own bark
...Teach not a dog how not to bark
When Masters mawkish dreams embark

© T. Wignesan – Paris, 2015
Copyright © T Wignesan | Year Posted 2015