How glorious the year as it comes to an end,
Thankful for all that I have received,
Complaints I have few, no regrets do I send,
Dismissing what should never be grieved.
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Thankful for all that I have received,
A fool would I be to complain,
Dismissing what should never be grieved,
Cherishing that which remains.
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A fool would I be to complain,
Perceived as nothing but a whiner,
Cherishing that which remains,
Leaving only the good which is finer.
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Perceived as nothing but a whiner,
Is something which should never be attained,
Leaving only the good which is finer,
To those that will follow unconstrained.
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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
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AUTHOR’S NOTE:
Description taken from : http://www.shadowpoetry.com/resources/wip/pantoum.html
The pantoum consists of a series of quatrains rhyming ABAB in which the second and fourth lines of a quatrain recur as the first and third lines in the succeeding quatrain; each quatrain introduces a new second rhyme as BCBC, CDCD. The first line of the series recurs as the last line of the closing quatrain, and third line of the poem recurs as the second line of the closing quatrain, rhyming ZAZA.
The design is simple:
Line 1
Line 2
Line 3
Line 4
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Line 5 (repeat of line 2)
Line 6
Line 7 (repeat of line 4)
Line 8
Continue with as many stanzas as you wish, but the ending stanza then repeats the second and fourth lines of the previous stanza (as its first and third lines), and also repeats the third line of the first stanza, as its second line, and the first line of the first stanza as its fourth. So the first line of the poem is also the last.
Last stanza:
Line 2 of previous stanza
Line 3 of first stanza
Line 4 of previous stanza
Line 1 of first stanza
Dom DiFrancesco 
I look at this as very difficult. You handled it nicely though.
Thank you very much Pam. :)
Very nice Dom!
Hugz
Thank you very much Patty, I appreciate it. :)
Loved it! Not easy, but very well done :)
Thank you so much for the nice comment my friend. :)
Lovely poem and thanks for sharing the construction of the poem as well….. :-)
Thank you very much for the nice compliment and you are very welcome, it was my pleasure to share the form with everyone.
Beautiful message Dom, and flows smoothly in a challenging form!
Thank you very much Shain, I hadn’t tried this form before and I thought I would give it a go. I so glad that it seems to have worked. :)
This is amazing, Dom! You’re good at these “repeaters”! Your inner troubadour was aching to get out – you did this beautifully. I can hear this on a lute – if not by a roaming troubadour then a minstrel at court.
It looks like a fun (but tough!) form – would you mind if I gave it a try?
Thank you for the compliment Jen, I am probably less a troubadour and more a court jester. :)
You’re too hard on yourself. But… If you recall… The jester could always say things that the rest of court couldn’t get away with. So being the jester wouldn’t necessarily be bad. But… I see you as a troubador.
Well thank you, of course my wife and kids may beg to differ, but I’ll take troubadour. :)
:)
How I admire you for following this form, and makign it flow so nicely and content is very profound. Lovely poem.
Thank you for the really nice compliment. Its nice to hear since I don’t always know how some of these more complex forms flow.
It’s always a treat when you do these complex forms!
Thank you so much, I appreciate that and I can promise, it won’t be the last one.
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Thank you so much for the mention Jen, you are wonderful. Have a truly Happy New Year. :)