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Yaps (Pantoum Poem)
December 15, 2016
My cat stalks ghosts that haunt the air
A fiersome fight for any foe
In shadows where she makes her lair
She's gone where no dog's dared to go.
A fiersome fight for any foe
She's got some business to attend
She's gone where no dog's dared to go
She flits around the hallway's bend.
She's got some business to attend
As soft as snow, as sharp as sleet
She flits around the hallway's bend
With tiny knives all on her feet.
As soft as snow, as sharp as sleet
In shadows where she makes her lair
With tiny knives all in her feet
My cat stalks ghosts that haunt the air.
© Leah B., Kokomo, IN
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This poem is a pantoum, a type of poetry that originated in Malaysia as a short, repeating poem in the 1400s. As Western writers changed its structure, It became less important that the lines should rhyme (though mine do) and that the poem should be brief. Now, a typical Pantoum poem is made up of as many four-line stanzas as the poet sees fit, with the second and fourth lines of one stanza becoming the first and third lines of the next. This is the fist pantoum I've ever written, and it's about my beloved (and slightly demonic) cat Yaps.