Monday 20 January 2014

#31PoeticFormsIn31Days #19Pantoum

Striped orange tiger
Sleeping in the sun
Watching all movements
Not wasting time to run

Sleeping in the sun
So still and yet alert
Not wasting time to run
But do you dare to flirt

So still and yet alert
Not missing any trick
But do you dare to flirt
With this tiger where he sits?


The pantoum poem is an ancient Malay form of poetry of four line stanzas where lines 2 and 4 of one stanza are used as lines 1 and 3 of the next in a continuing pattern.


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