NaPoWriMo -19 Day-5: Villanelle

Day 5 - Prompt: Write a poem that incorporates at least one of the following: (1) the villanelle form, (2) lines taken from an outside text, and/or (3) phrases that oppose each other in some way. If you can use two elements, great – and if you can do all three, wow! 

The classic villanelle has five three-line stanzas followed by a final, four-line stanza. The first and third lines of the first stanza alternately repeat as the last lines of the following three-line stanzas, before being used as the last two lines of the final quatrain. 

I have attempted the villanelle form and I have also incorporated lines- 2 lines actually from two different poems: "No time to stand and stare" from the poem "Leisure"  by  W. H. Davies, and "And that has made all the difference" from the poem "The road not taken" by Robert Frost. 

Decision! 

No time to stand and stare

No time to linger, no time to ponder

PC: borrowed from the internet

And that has made all the difference!

Oh! To dawdle, to just amble by

But no, it has come to this

No time to stand and stare...

The sighing leaves, they beckon

I pause and listen to tales unspoken             

And that has made all the difference!

Oh! To just let go of moments that flit by

To forget that one has just

No time to stand and stare...

I turned to look behind me
There was no path of return
And that has made all the difference!

So seize I shall every moment

Toss away every care

Scrap the notion that there is

No time to stand and stare

And that has made all the difference!