Welcome to my April 2025 Great and Powerful Blogging from A to Z Challenge!

I’ve revealed my theme (A poem a day…with pictures), and of course, I am unashamedly blogging my theme letters on the fly.  So, here goes nothing!

So, without further ado, P is for …Pantoum.

“A Malaysian verse form adapted by French poets and occasionally imitated in English. It comprises a series of quatrains, with the second and fourth lines of each quatrain repeated as the first and third lines of the next. The second and fourth lines of the final stanza repeat the first and third lines of the first stanza.”

He Walks in Darkness

He walks in darkness, closing
hands, feet beating in step
with his heart. He doesn’t look
back, as if he had a choice, while

hands and feet beat. Onto steps
he climbs, eager to return
back, as if he had a choice while
turning from signs, fearing the end.

He climbs, eager to return,
all his fears scattering.
Turning from signs, fearing the end,
he is buried deep.

All his fears scattering,
a knife plunges into his heart.
He is buried deep as
he walks in darkness closing.

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Thanks for visiting my 2025 A to Z Challenge – Letter P.