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 
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