you look at me like i’m summer,
just when I thought the day had nothing left to give.
i look at you in deep slumber,
gratitude and happiness for the life i live.
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P is for Pantun (Malaysia)
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:
- most often a poem in a single quatrain made up of two complete couplets.
- syllabic, all lines are of the same length, lines are written in 8 to 12 syllables each.
- rhymed, rhyme scheme abab.
- 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.
In response to Poetry A-Z Challenge 2018.
April Coady Poetry 