Trying A Pantoum

       According to Poets.org, The pantoum originated in Malaysia in the fifteenth-century as a short folk poem, typically made up of two rhyming couplets that were recited or sung. However, as the pantoum spread, and Western writers altered and adapted the form, the importance of rhyming and brevity diminished. The modern pantoum is a poem of any length, composed of four-line stanzas in which the second and fourth lines of each stanza serve as the first and third lines of the next stanza. The last line of a pantoum is often the same as the first.  I did repeat the lines that needed repeating, but did change some words.

My Brain Is Fumbling

I race to the next activity

Whereupon I found I was lost

My life's plans often become

Ways that are turned and tossed.

Whenever I find I am lost

It's never a pleasant feeling

Ways that are turned and tossed

Leaves my head quite reeling.

It's not ever a pleasant feeling

And I want it to end, I do

It leaves my head quite reeling

And causes me to be blue

I want it to end, I do

That race to the next activity

My life's plans often become

What causes me to be blue.

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