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Thump: A Pantoum

June 15, 2014
By OzymandiasAengus PLATINUM, Bronx, New York
OzymandiasAengus PLATINUM, Bronx, New York
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Thump-Thump-Thump-Thump
the flashing music cascades
between the molecules of oxygen
singed in panting lungs.

The flashing music cascades
to the orgasmic chorus
singed in panting lungs,
it knows, I think, we all forget.

“To the orgasmic chorus,”
wound in irises, but what
it knows, I think, we all forget,
“crowd, and ring, and wind around.”

Wound in Irises, but what
can that mean for the
crowd and ring and wind around
the glowing greatnesses?

Can that mean for the
pupils to begin?
The glowing greatnesses
approach, and look --

“Pupils, to begin,”
Thump
Thump
Thump
Thump
“approach, and look
between the molecules of oxygen.”


The author's comments:
Because of the strictness of repeating lines in a pantoum, I had no idea where I was going with this poem. It was mostly manufactured by coincidence and impulse.
Also, because so many lines repeat, it is necessary to be clever in one's words, finding double meanings and alternate senses, so happening upon other unexpected meanings changed the course of the poem significantly as well.

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