Praise Prayer: A Pantuom

Praise Prayer: A Pantuom
©2016 Rosemawrites@A Reading Writer

You are always enough
though I don’t have that much
at least I can still laugh
even with an empty pouch.

I don’t have that much
I’ve got no money in banks
it’s just me and my empty pouch
but still I have peaceful nights.

I’ve got no money in banks
but my heart’s filled with love
that’s why I have peaceful nights
after a day spent with those I love.

My heart’s filled with love
that’s why I still can laugh
with each day spent with those I love
for me, You’re always enough.

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Photo credit: Aaron Burden

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In response to Blogging from A to Z Challenge: P is for Pantuom.

Pantuom

The pantoum consists of a series of quatrains rhyming ABAB in which the second and fourth lines of a quatrain recur as the first and third lines in the succeeding quatrain; each quatrain introduces a new second rhyme as BCBC, CDCD. The first line of the series recurs as the last line of the closing quatrain, and third line of the poem recurs as the second line of the closing quatrain, rhyming ZAZA.

The design is simple:

Line 1
Line 2
Line 3
Line 4

Line 5 (repeat of line 2)
Line 6
Line 7 (repeat of line 4)
Line 8

Continue with as many stanzas as you wish, but the ending stanzathen repeats the second and fourth lines of the previous stanza (as its first and third lines), and also repeats the third line of the first stanza, as its second line, and the first line of the first stanza as its fourth. So the first line of the poem is also the last.

Last stanza:

Line 2 of previous stanza
Line 3 of first stanza
Line 4 of previous stanza
Line 1 of first stanza

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