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A pantoum is a form of poetry that is composed of four-line stanzas or quatrains with an ABAB rhyme scheme and where the 2nd and 4th lines repeat, but there is more to a pantoum. What is pantoum in poetry (complete definition)?
Intrusions From a Dark Unknown
They are not UFOs you know
Those strange lights up in the sky
Blinking in from another dimension
Not from figments of imagination
Those strange lights up in the sky
They might be sent to terrorize
Not from figments of imagination
Intrusions...
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Categories:
spiritual,
Form: Pantoum
Spring ShadowClouds bursting on clouds from the uncured rain,
Where stemmed wicks snuff out flower smoke,
Fissures that droop so much deeper—
The air full of seed will burn out the storm.
Where stemmed wicks snuff out flower smoke,
A girl...
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Categories:
angst, deep, humanity, introspection,
Form: Pantoum
Write"I am a writer. Therefore. I am not sane." - Edgar Allan Poe
We all go a little mad sometimes
... In the middle of the night,
Our minds raving words and rhymes
Hands compelled to...
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Categories:
crazy, inspiration, night, poetry,
Form: Pantoum
FirestarterCall it, passionate fire
some say its madness
insanity becomes enjoyable
when you consider the mischievous pantoum
Some say its madness
french kissing you turns me inside out
when you consider the mischievous pantoum
twister becomes a pleasurable game with you
French...
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Categories:
fire, passion, sensual,
Form: Pantoum
Treats And SweetsLined with a fence of modeling chocolate,
treats and sweets but never gingerbread;
My garden grows popcorn and cotton candy
eat all you like it just keeps germinating;
Treats and sweets but never gingerbread,
my cupboard is all out of...
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Categories:
candy, chocolate, emotions, feelings,
Form: Pantoum
FriskyWelcome Frisky to your new home
Where happiness you’ll bring.
You’ll tug and catch and jump and roam,
And children’s hearts will sing.
Where happiness you’ll bring,
You’ll tug a rope and catch some bees,
And children’s hearts will sing.
You’ll catch...
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Categories:
dog, pets,
Form: Pantoum
Vanish"Sunsets are loved because they vanish." - Ray Bradbury
Days like this, I could forget
If they were all to vanish,
Come to an end in a sunset
Black clouds I'd ever banish
If they were all to vanish
As...
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Categories:
anger, day, family, life,
Form: Pantoum
SHOWING OFF ON THE SPRINGs ZEPHYR-CREST
Dawn’s dewdrops form a breathtaking lake
for the sunrise fairy who joys in a swim.
Far from shore, where problems well,
tears rise...
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Categories:
cute love, fairy,
Form: Pantoum
THE PEACEMAKER SLEPTThe sun is up, the sun is yellow, shining bright.
Reflection of chrome, pointed nowhere in particular.
Where there should be peace, it’s high noon.
A breakdown in communication, shrieking bars.
Reflection of chrome, pointed nowhere in particular,
until an...
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Categories:
conflict,
Form: Pantoum
Days AfterSilence spoken for by the rain—
A missing space for the missing gold of sun,
As the wind breaks on song, his china fall—
There my eyes soak up the tears now that he's gone.
A missing space for...
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Categories:
child, dad, death, emotions,
Form: Pantoum
MicroscopicWith patience slow down the loss of youth,
it will inevitably get here soon enough;
Live in the moment black sheep rebel!
As you did, as you would, at sixteen;
It will inevitably get here soon enough,
paint each day...
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Categories:
emotions, inspirational, introspection,
Form: Pantoum
Nature's BallerinaA poised ballerina, feathered in green,
dancing in the breeze; she swirls in the air.
And it's the weirdest thing I've ever seen
I'm mesmerized and cannot help but stare.
Dancing in the breeze, she swirls in the air,
performing...
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Categories:
allusion, beautiful, cute, dance,
Form: Pantoum
SANCTUARY“Any patch of sunlight in a wood will show you something about the sun which you could never get from reading books on astronomy. These pure and spontaneous pleasures are ‘patches of Godlight’ in the...
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Categories:
nature, sun, sunshine,
Form: Pantoum
Mamma
Categories:
mother, mother daughter, mothers
Form: Pantoum
Closet SicknessClothes hang prickly and wild—
The kind diamond smell of her
Spreads in a blocked out sky's room,
Faint earth in bursting skeleton bones.
The kind diamond smell of her,
A true prism on the walls,
Faint earth in bursting skeleton...
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Categories:
age, angst, child, introspection,
Form: Pantoum
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Definition | What is Pantoum in Poetry?