Pond Life

The pond out back too voluminous
All too soon it will recede
For the time being, too close to us
Spring time rains, shall it  feed

All too soon it will recede
From the steps of my back door
Spring time rains, shall it  feed
Summer sun will make it no more


Ken Goree


I was intending to write this poem as a pantoum, but I would have had to end the poem with the first line of the poem.  Unfortunately, I didn’t do that this time.  I may still work this poem over later to make it a pantoum, but not tonight.  

This poem is a pair of quatrains.  The first stanza has an ABAB pattern.  The second stanza repeats the 2^nd and 4^th lines of the first stanza, with a BCBC pattern.