Nov 6, 2013

Rainbow:Pantoum



Far above a beautiful spectrum,
glittering bridge from heaven to earth,
fills with musical notes to hum,
a view of love's worth.

Glittering bridge from heaven to earth,
smoothly flows the glossy curve,
a view of love's worth,
infuses new life and verve.

Smoothly flows the glossy curve,
heaven and earth's eternal bond,
infuses new life and verve,
enchanting like a magical wand.

Heaven and earth's eternal bond,
fills with musical notes to hum,
enchanting like a magical wand,
far above a beautiful spectrum.

The pantoum is derived from the pantun, a Malay verse form - specifically from the pantun berkait, a series of interwoven quatrains.Pantoums are composed entirely of quatrains (four-line stanzas). There is no restriction on the number of quatrains, each quatrain follows the rhyme scheme abab within itself. The characteristic feature of a pantoum, however, is its repetition. The first and third lines of every stanza (except the first stanza) are identical to the second and fourth lines of the previous stanza, respectively.
Final Stanza:
The first and third lines of the last stanza are the second and fourth of the penultimate; the first line of the poem is the last line of the final stanza, and the third line of the first stanza is the second of the final

13 comments:

Brian Miller said...

ah i love the music of a pantoum...i have only written two, it sounds of a song...and you chose a lovely subject...

Ella said...

I too love the lyrical tone and your beautiful bridge is lovely~
I saw one last week, usually only half, but this was the whole bridge!
Gorgeous

Mary said...

Lovely photo, lovely poem...

Grace said...

What a lovely form ~ Reads like a musical piece :-)

Jennifer Wagner said...

I like seeing the rainbow as a "bridge". Nice work with the form Vandana. :)

Marcoantonio Arellano (Nene) said...

does have a sense of musicality. nice

Susan said...

Love. Trying to find at least a minute a day to enter that space and, often, to linger there.

avalon said...

I keep on forgetting how a pantoun goes. You did well to make it so smooth.

brudberg said...

Such a musical and beautiful ode to the rainbow.

Susie Clevenger said...

Beautiful from image, form, words...a great way to start my Monday!!

Sherry Blue Sky said...

I love this pantoum, especially the repeated "bridge from heaven to earth" and the "view of life's worth". Nice one.

Truedessa said...

A lovely poem and full of color..I recently saw a double rainbow after a rainstorm it was so beautiful and very vibrant..fills one with hope..

Jim said...

I like the bridge idea, Vandana. It is hard to relate a rainbow to music and musical notes. Perhaps at the bottom with the gold. The picture is neat, the geological features inside the rainbow seem to be a little like a magic dream land.
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