Walt Wojtanik, a poet submitting to the Poetic Asides forum and the founder of the micro poetry group in Facebook, recently put up this prompt:
A pantoum is a poetic form written as quatrains (4-line stanzas) with an abab rhyme scheme and repeat lines 2 and 4 in the previous stanza as lines 1 and 3 in the next stanza. Lines 1 and 3 in the first stanza become lines 2 and 4 in your last stanza (The order is up yo you) Keep the sixteen line limit for a nice four stanza pantoum.
Since I wrote it in Bulgarian, here it is. I will consider re-writing or translation in English later. As usual, it turned out bloodier and gorier than expected. Well, it came out as a 5-stanza one, too. Yet, another deviation. I am definitely planning to share it with my friends in the micro poetry group, even though it is not “micro” in any way. Yet, we all do this for the fun and inspiration of poeming and friendship.
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Вчера сутрин станах рано
и измих си аз лицето.
Веждата ми бе одрана
имах белег на нослето.
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И измих си аз лицето
и погледнах в огледалото –
имах белег на нослето
на чертички беше цялото.
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И погледнах в огледалото –
боже, аз ли съм това?
на чертички беше цялото,
стичаше се там кръвта.
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Боже, аз ли съм това?
гледах скръбно, ужасено.
Стичаше се там кръвта,
всичко беше тъй червено.
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Вчера сутрин станах рано,
с намерение да пиша проза.
Веждата ми бе одрана –
поетична е прогнозата.
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