survival (a pantun)

Like rain in the middle of one hot summer
I was surprised with your sudden arrival.
Before I could pray, you’re sent as the answer,
a blessing for my gasping heart’s survival.

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03.23.2018
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In response to Blogging from A to Z Challenge and NaPoWriMo 2018.

P is for Pantun.

The Pantun was at one time an integral part of Malaysian life, used to propose marriage, to tell a proverb, or to celebrate just about any occasion, even shared between warriors about to battle. It is originally folk verse.

The elements of the Pantun are:

1. most often a poem in a single quatrain made up of two complete couplets.

2. syllabic, all lines are of the same length, lines are written in 8 to 12 syllables each.

3. rhymed, rhyme scheme abab.

4. written in two complete couplets. The first , the shadow is to set the structure but its focus may be quite different from the second couplet, the meaning in which the message is set.