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So, what is a pantoum? Watch this brief video to find out.
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Pantoums are a Malaysian form that was adopted by the French
Here is a pantoum, "Another Lullaby for Insomniacs," by American poet (and MacArthur "Genius" Fellowship recipient) A.E. Stallings
Sleep, she will not linger:
She turns her moon-cold shoulder.
With no ring on her finger,
You cannot hope to hold her.
She turns her moon-cold shoulder
And tosses off the cover.
You cannot hope to hold her:
She has another lover.
She tosses off the cover
And lays the darkness bare.
She has another lover.
Her heart is otherwhere.
She lays the darkness bare.
You slowly realize
Her heart is otherwhere.
There's distance in her eyes.
You slowly realize
That she will never linger,
With distance in her eyes
And no ring on her finger.
This is a recording of the group Human Shields performing an original musical arrangement of A.E. Stallings poem. You can hear the musicality in the structure of the pantoum!
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