Tayla Fankhauser Comments

Dear Tayla, In response to your comment (since you don't allow emails) : Date & Time: 10/7/2009 3: 21: 00 PM Poem: 4190947 - Greek Fire (As I Burn with Desire) - A Villanelle Member: Tayla Fankhauser Comment: Is that the full poem because i have a copy of the poem and it dosen't fit with what I have here. As a matter of fact I did repost a longer version of it, here it is (from my archives) : Greek Fire (As I Burn with Desire) - An Extended Villanelle (Repost) As I burn with desire My brain’s aflame with wantin’ For you are my Greek fire. Your form I try to capture. Pillows breathe, sheets become skin, As I burn with desire. A road to a place of sulfur I pave with thoughts forbidden, Hence you are my Greek fire I vision you as lover In a scene that could've been As I burn with desire. Your touch could end this hunger: Oh to hold, to taste your skin! But you are my Greek fire. A blaze that will not smother Consumes my straw-soul with sin As I burn with desire. I'm tied to this wicked pyre, In a bed now smolderin' Since you are my Greek fire Guilty-delights I savor In damnation-soaked linen As I burn with desire ‘Lord, spare me from this danger! ’ I fall on hands and knees, prayin’, For you are my Greek fire. You are not mine...However Lust in the night is callin’, As I burn with desire For you. You: My Greek fire. ©® All rights reserved 09/29/2006 Is that the one you have? I posted this because a member asked me to repost the earlier one. So I added a few stanza that I had originally cut for the 'classical' villanelle format (the one posted here) as to differentiate them on the account. I decided to remove this version and keep the other 'classical' one in 2008. Hope this answers your question. Thanks for writing! All the best Amicalement vôtre R.