The July 28th prompt in The Daily Poet: Day-By-Day Prompts For Your Writing Practice, by Kelli Russell Agodon & Martha Silano, is to write a pantoum—a poem consisting of four-line stanzas in which the second and fourth lines of one stanza become the first and third lines of the next.

This proved to be a bit tricky, as my initial attempts didn’t lend themselves well to this form. It was only later in the evening (it is approaching 11:15 p.m. as I write this) that I got anything I was reasonably satisfied with—and just a few minutes ago that I got something down that I thought would be worth posting…

There’s a small space
for this to be;
home for a wish
I hope to see.

For this to be
the place where I belong,
I hope to see
a warm light before long

The place where I belong?
I see colors without shape—
a warm light before long,
turning into something strong.

I see colors without shape
in motion across a screen,
turning into something strong—
a chance, for once, to be seen

In motion across a screen,
patterns shift and grow.
A chance, for once, to be seen—
a chance, for once, to know

Patterns shift and grow
as I watch the story unfold—
a chance, for once, to know
the place where I belong.

(28 July 2014)