Change is the mode for life to complicate
Change comes round when the number makes 7
Everything’s encased in square 8 by 8

[Don't buy BLIND MAN'S Lantern: it's full of deliberate ERRORS, not the MSS/digital version submited to the VANITY-PRINTER "Publisher" by the author.]

Villanelle: The Dilemma of the Non-Violent – 62

Everything’s encased in square 8 by 8*
Each family member plays with 7
Now this now that the future turns out late

This villanelle’s 6 + 2 = 8
Day 1 Month 1 in Year (2016)* 7
Everything’s encased in square 8 by 8

1 is the number this one first took freight
Met one 8 which – 1 gives 7
Now this now that the future turns out late

Change is the mode for life to complicate
Change comes round when the number makes 7
Everything’s encased in square 8 by 8

GOU Hexagram 4 + 4 = 8
Hell awaits on 06 06 66 + 1*
Now this now that the future turns out late

Everything begins again 8 times 8*
This sequence must end at 9 x 7*
Everything’s encased in square 8 by 8
Now this now that the future turns out late

* 64 hexagrams
* 2016 (9 – 2) = 7
* 06061966 = 16 = 7
* Hexagram 64: Weiji (Ferrying incomplete)
* Hexagram 63: Jiji (Ferrying complete)

Transliteration from Richard John Lynn’s translation: The Classic of Changes (1994)

© T. Wignesan – Paris, Posted on Poetrysoup.com site (but locked out by the South Asian owners lately): 2015