WOT's WRITING HOLIDAY

A Villanelle composed by the participants of Women On Tour's creative writing holiday who, inspired by the place and the Spanish red wine wrote this:

In the hills the sun will shine

while we slave and work and write
and later on we’ll have some wine.

Outside, the breeze brings scents of thyme
and our writing takes to flight
in the hills. The sun will shine

and the shepherd’s bell will chime
and the plain will flood with light
and later on we’ll have some wine.

We are looking for a sign
and, even if it’s out of sight,
in the hills the sun will shine

as we write this line by line
trusting end will come by night
so later on we’ll have some wine,

but in the meantime here’s our rhyme
in this casa in the light
in the hills, the sun will shine
and, later on, we’ll have some wine.