I remember frogs singing in the night
as shadows fell across the pungent land
bringing word to dreamers that all was right
once the sun made its final grand stand.
As shadows fell across the pungent land
between the trees that reached up to the sky
once the sun made its final grand stand
The coolness of night tumbling with a sigh.
Between the trees that reached up to the sky
The moons silvery beams natures gentle light
The coolness of night tumbling with a sigh
In fields of summer dark the fireflies in flight.
The moons silvery beams natures gentle light
bringing word to dreamers that all was alright
In fields of summer dark the fireflies in flight
I remember frogs singing in the night.
Author notes
In a traditional Pantoum:
The lines are grouped into quatrains (4-line stanzas).
The final line of the Pantoum must be the same as its first line.
A Pantoum has any number of quatrains.
Lines may be of any length.
The Pantoum has a rhyme scheme of abab in each quatrain. Thus, the lines rhyme alternately.
The Pantoum says everything twice:
For all quatrains except the first, the first line of the current quatrain repeats the second line in the preceeding quatrain; and the third line of the current quatrain repeats the fourth line of the preceeding quatrain.
In addition, for the final quatrain, its second line repeats the (so-far unrepeated) third line in the first quatrain; and its last line repeats the (so-far unrepeated) first line of the first quatrain.
Thus the pattern of line-repetition is as follows, where the lines of the first quatrain are represented by the numbers "1 2 3 4":
1 2 3 4 - Lines in first quatrain.
2 5 4 6 - Lines in second quatrain.
5 7 6 8 - Lines in third quatrain.
7 9 8 10 - Lines in fourth quatrain.
9 3 10 1 - Lines in fifth and final quatrain.
In this example, we have 5 quatrains. You could have more. You could have fewer.
This is my first attempt at this form. It was more difficult than I thought it would be and I ended up with all four lines with the same rhyme in the last stanza. Im going to play with this one some more.
A contest entry
- FORM POETRY---III by rinzurajan.
400 points, ended November 20, 28 entries
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Comments
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good job with this...but everytime i read a pantoum i get confused...need more practice i suppose...
thanks for the entry and good luck
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you are such an experienced writer.
congrats!!
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