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Pantoum Poems | Pantoum Examples

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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)?

Premium Member Journey of the Tarot Card Fool
A little dog begs at the heels of a Fool. Feather clouds of evening make the journey's way easier on the Fool's breath of grief. The Fool follows the image of his dead father. Feather clouds of evening mark...Read the rest...
Categories: dog, journey,
Form: Pantoum



rising to the occasion
Night breaking up for the sun to fall, Its colorwise veil disperse on her snagged back— By morning, she lays her black cup down For she is the will of light. Its colorwise veil disperse on her snagged back, Dark...Read the rest...
Categories: angst, dark, good morning,
Form: Pantoum
Premium Member Beta Test It
Slap it hard beta test a ‘nu jam on me, your voice is more than a cover song; I swear I’ll give you honest feedback, just promise me that you’ll have fun; Your voice is more than a cover...Read the rest...
Categories: emotions, feelings, music,
Form: Pantoum
Shadow Self, By Its Nature
Spring tones, the blues— creature sky must come down, For Summer will chip on flowers cut under ploughs, Power now shared by crows long before Autumn's fast, And Winter then, snowing hard with a forest's bare; bony...Read the rest...
Categories: deep, god, introspection, loneliness,
Form: Pantoum
Premium Member Robert Zimmerman American Poet
Robert Zimmerman American Poet Heard the tambourine man play today as I was knockin’ on heaven’s door. Like a rolling stone she could not stay. Her boots of spanish leather made me sore. I was knockin’ on heaven’s door, old mighty Quinn...Read the rest...
Categories: music,
Form: Pantoum



Premium Member Lost To The Four Winds
Fiendish, they encapsulate strawberries; Subliminal message makes mouths water; Phantasms won’t let go of the fields lost to the four winds of conflagration; Subliminal message makes mouths water, you can smell such a superb sweetness; Lost to the four...Read the rest...
Categories: emotions, fire, horror,
Form: Pantoum
Premium Member Wanted That First Kiss
Wanted that first kiss submerging my lips. Snow White’s open carriage embracing life. Underscore of green eyes, seized by the sea. At the lap of waves, over my deck, a song. Snow White’s open carriage embracing life. The death of...Read the rest...
Categories: kiss,
Form: Pantoum
Premium Member Copper's Hawk's Got His Eye On
We've seen the rattlesnakes down by the treacherous creek. Cooper's Hawk's got his eye on salamanders singing in sunshine down by the treacherous creek. Golden finches flailing about, salamanders singing in sunshine gathering at the culvert ... golden finches flailing about. Ominous gray rain...Read the rest...
Categories: bird,
Form: Pantoum
Premium Member 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...Read the rest...
Categories: spiritual,
Form: Pantoum
Spring Shadow
Clouds 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...Read the rest...
Categories: angst, deep, humanity, introspection,
Form: Pantoum
Premium Member 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...Read the rest...
Categories: crazy, inspiration, night, poetry,
Form: Pantoum
Premium Member Firestarter
Call 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...Read the rest...
Categories: fire, passion, sensual,
Form: Pantoum
Premium Member Treats And Sweets
Lined 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...Read the rest...
Categories: candy, chocolate, emotions, feelings,
Form: Pantoum
Premium Member Frisky
Welcome 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...Read the rest...
Categories: dog, pets,
Form: Pantoum
Premium Member 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...Read the rest...
Categories: anger, day, family, life,
Form: Pantoum

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Definition | What is Pantoum in Poetry?

Poems Related to Pantoum

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