Pantoum...

My poetic son wrote a few pantoums recently

and I wanted to share some with my Poetry Cafe.

It's a form of poetry that repeats a whole line rather than words.

The second and fourth lines of the first stanza are used again and

repeated exactly to become the first and third lines of the second

stanza. The same pattern is used to complete the entire poem.

They can be as long as you'd like, but most are about four stanzas.

Here's my example:

Appears from the past

The boyish man

To break the fast

Once again

The boyish man

That you once fed

Beckons again

for soul's bread

That you once fed

Until weakness set in

for soul's bread

He has come again

Until weakness set in

You always forget.

He has come again.

He's not full yet.