"You Say It's Your Birthday"*
by
Dennis Wall
A Villanelle in Honor of the Beatles, Birthdays, and (Writer's) Block.
Saturday, September 10, 2022
*Reflecting the suggestions of the Writer's Block Group Zoom,
Monday, September 12, 2022
It's Birthday Week in my life
I heard the song of joy
Saw the slice from a cake knife.
Good songs sung from a cake knife
My child's a girl, not boy.
It's birthday week in my life.
Oft I saw the birthday life
I miss the sound of joy,
Saw the slice from a cake knife.
Harming none, it fed, that knife.
When mind recalls the joy
It's birthday week in my life.
Then we celebrated life
Every girl and boy
Saw the slice from a cake knife.
Make time in American life
Important in days of strife
Birthday week lived to enjoy
Saw the slice from a cake knife.
©2022 Dennis J. Wall All rights reserved.
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