Funeral

Abreast upon the sun

the winged, dead bird sweeping

under a dusky flowering undone

to a journey all whisper, sleeping

The winged, dead bird sweeping

past on the field of graves

to a journey all whisper, sleeping

ploughed its shadows and they've

Past on the field of graves

flown above the souls

ploughed its shadows and they've

filled the gala smoldering in coals

flown above the souls

abreast upon the sun

filled the gala smoldering in coals

under the dusky flowering undone

Author notes

Prompt: Endless

Pantoum

The pantoum consists of a 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.

 The design is simple:   Line 1 Line 2 Line 3 Line 4

  Line 5 (repeat of line 2) Line 6 Line 7 (repeat of

line 4) Line 8   Continue with as many stanzas as

you wish, but the ending stanzathen 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.

 Last stanza:  Line 2 of previous stanza Line 3

 of first stanza Line 4 of previous stanza Line 1

of first stanza

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