Cloud Imaging

Dragons in the clouds
Fashioned from iridescent mist
With sunbeam shrouds
Fantasy secretly kissed

Fashioned from iridescent mist
Singular as snowflakes
Fantasy secretly kissed
Swift as heartbreaks

Singular as snowflakes
Delicate rainbows
Swift as heartbreaks
Hiding in lightning shadows

Subtle as rainbows
With sunbeam shrouds
Hiding in lightning shadows
Dragons in the clouds

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Pantoum

The pantoum consists of a series of quatrains rhyming ABAB in which the second and fourth lines of a quatrain recur as the first and third lines in the succeeding quatrain; each quatrain introduces a new second rhyme as BCBC, CDCD. The first line of the series recurs as the last line of the closing quatrain, and third line of the poem recurs as the second line of the closing quatrain, rhyming ZAZA.

The design is simple:

Line 1
Line 2
Line 3
Line 4

Line 5 (repeat of line 2)
Line 6
Line 7 (repeat of line 4)
Line 8

Continue with as many stanzas as you wish, but the ending stanza then repeats the second and fourth lines of the previous stanza (as its first and third lines), and also repeats the third line of the first stanza, as its second line, and the first line of the first stanza as its fourth. So the first line of the poem is also the last.

Last stanza:

Line 2 of previous stanza
Line 3 of first stanza
Line 4 of previous stanza
Line 1 of first stanza