Will we ever rescind our bald admiration
For heroes who tread on our toes,
While waltzing with civility’s perdition?
We become those to whom we pay adoration,
Swallowing their crimes as their power grows.
Will we ever rescind our bald admiration?
A scoundrel tends lower in higher profession,
Sows wanton abuse, reaps mass woes,
While waltzing with civility’s perdition.
Talent stoops foul when cheered at convention,
Licking boots while exchanging blows.
Will we ever rescind our bald admiration?
Neo-haydamaks arm for dissension,
Torching new Reichstags for only Q knows,
While waltzing with civility’s perdition.
Some of our claims are acts of self-fiction;
But injustice still sparks moral throes.
Will we ever rescind our bald admiration,
While waltzing with civility’s perdition?
What are Haydamaks?
Haydamak — The haidamakas, also haidamaky or haidamaks (singular haidamaka, Ukrainian: Гайдамаки, Haidamaky) were Ukrainian paramilitary outfits composed of commoners (peasants, craftsmen) and impoverished noblemen in the eastern part of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Because of the massacres of Jews, Jesuits, Uniates, and Polish nobility, the Polish Hajdamactwo became a pejorative label for Ukrainians as a whole. However, Ukrainian folklore and literature generally (with some notable exceptions) treat the actions of the haidamaks positively.
What is a villanelle?
A definition.
Two examples: “Mad Girl’s Love Song” by Sylvia Plath and “Do not go gentle into that good night” by Dylan Thomas.