Boughs thrash about amidst flailing gale
clouds tossed about in rolling thunder
lightning brightens darkening prevail
luminescent heavens asunder
Clouds tossed about in rolling thunder
gray, purple, black, and deepening blues
luminescent heavens asunder
colors melt in melancholy hues
Gray, purple, black, and deepening blues
untamed beauty in natures fury
colors melt in melancholy hues
summer storms arise like mercury
Untamed beauty in natures fury
lightning brightens darkening prevail
summer storms arise like mercury
boughs thrash about amidst flailing gale
A Pantoum is a dreamy form of French poetry which with its utterly charming repetitions creates a magical form of poetry, which cant be replicated by any other form. The structure of a Pantoum is very simple.
It consists of series of quatrains rhyming ABAB in which the second and fourth lines of a quatrain recur as the first and third lines in the succeeding quatrain; each quatrain introduces a new second rhyme as BCBC, CDCD. The first line of the series recurs as the last line of the closing quatrain, and third line of the poem recurs as the second line of the closing quatrain, rhyming ZAZA.
You can go as many stanzas as you wish as long as the ending stanza then repeats the second and fourth lines of the previous stanza (as its first and third lines), and also repeats the third line of the first stanza, as its second line, and the first line of the first stanza as its fourth. So the first line of the poem is also the last.
This is the format for the last stanza regardless of how many stanzas you have. This is cast in stone as far as Pantoum goes
Line 2 of previous stanza
Line 3 of first stanza
Line 4 of previous stanza
Line 1 of first stanza
I did four quatrain with a nine syllable count for each line.
Adding your comment:
the way you rhyme is wonderful and I love that you make it seem so effortless 
this is a beautiful poem - and I really liked the line about mercury the best! 
