Love and ice cream melt in the summer sun
frozen sweetness shifts to warm honey thick,
we revel, taste until pleasure is done
What started in joy becomes much less fun
as it melts like wax ringing round a wick
love and ice cream melt in the summer sun
When sweetness and cold at first become one
they dance on the tongue in chocolate licks,
we revel, taste until pleasure is done
And, like that ice cream, this vilanelle runs
and beads, like tears rolling down cone or stick,
love and ice cream melt in the summer sun
And fall to the earth in drips, white to dun
no slow savor, a flavor tasted quick
we revel, taste until pleasure is done
And so it is summer, here just begun
and over so quickly, passed with a lick
we revel, taste until pleasure is done
love and ice cream melt in the summer sun
***OK, my vanilla vilanelle–if I could use ice cream in a haiku, I had to see if those same images could be used in a vilanelle. I am sure I will never try this form again. Poet’s Billow people, you had to know someone was going to try this, and I HAD to, even though I said I would not…
Susan Daniels Poetry 
like the ice cream, this is sweet and i love it
Thank you Kyle 🙂
No more vilanelles for me–although it was **sweet** torture
A fun Summer poem.
Thank you 🙂
Good thing I’m full. 🙂 Nice wander into a little summer’s pleasure.
🙂 love ice cream!
nice work and a tough form to tackle… you are brave and talented :0)
Now I need to have a huge bowl of ice cream with a sticky topping all over it
although … not something so bittersweet. there was a sadness in this poem, no?
If there was a sadness, it was because all the sweetness of summer (and ice cream) does not last… Or the intensity of a first love… Heavy sigh. Yes, a tiny pinch of bitter in this sweet, kind of a nice kick, like a hint of cayenne in chocolate…
nicely said.
I’ll keep my intensity to rainbow sprinkles and my steady eddie 🙂
sprinkles and steady work well 🙂
Oh, yum!
keep ice cream and love away from the summer sun! perhaps then they can be tasted visually and not melt and run, always fun, never undone, as our eyes lick and bodies and ears click!
Awesome advice—but then, what would I have used as subject matter for the self-torture of this vilanelle? 🙂
gee and i just thought all you did was eat ice cream! the images you awaken susan are ‘awkening’. 🙂
Thanks, SFAM 🙂
This is better than sugary lips and dripping chin with delectability! You’re wonderful in every topic! ~Love you friend ~Deborah
Aw, Deb–no, you are the one that’s sweet 🙂