Santa Fe (A Villonnet)

Another day begins as bullets fly;
an artist, a composer, or perhaps
a future president, forever lost.
Why is it that our children have to die?

The breaking news evokes another sigh-
a troubled youth has taken out his rage
upon his fellow students, and we find
another day begins as bullets fly!

As fearful parents gather, siblings cry
not knowing how their brothers, sisters fare.
And when sad news arrives, the question falls;
Why is it that our children have to die?

Another day begins as bullets fly
Compounding questions on our troubled minds
Why is it that our children have to die?

D.Allen Jenkins
5/18/18

Author's Note

This is a Villonnet, a form I created in 2005. A Villonnet is a hybrid of the Villanelle and the Sonnet. It has the Iambic Pentameter of both, but holds the four-stanza/line structure of the sonnet, while utilizing the two-line rhyme nature of the villanelle. The final stanza replaces the sonnet couplet with a typical villanelle tercet.