Flocculent Pocket

At moonrise, balled emotion
in my flocculent pocket
unravels, creating constellations
from stars on my fingertips.

In my flocculent pocket,
a loose knit of present and past;
from stars on my fingertips
a net across the sky is cast.

A loose knit of present and past
unravels, creating constellations.
A net across the sky is cast
at moon rise, balled emotion.

Kim M. Russell, 18th April 2024

Image by Dollar Gill on Unsplash

It’s Thursday at the dVerse Poets Pub, Merril is our host, and we are meeting the bar with poems written in a specified form; today’s form is the pantoum.

Merril reminds us of the origins and structure of the pantoum. For this challenge we may write rhymed or unrhymed lines; however, we must use the third line of the first stanza as the second line in the final quatrain AND end with the first line. We may change/add some words and punctuation in our repeating lines to make the lines fit or to alter the context. Merril has even given us a template for the form, and examples from Natalie Diaz and A.E. Starlings.

I didn’t know that today is Poem in a Pocket Day, and one of Merril’s optional themes is pockets. I searched my archives and found several poems that have pockets in them, so I decided to borrow some of my own lines to create a new pantoum. You can find the original poem here.

39 thoughts on “Flocculent Pocket”

  2. I’d actually forgotten it was poem in a pocket day, even though it was my prompt! But we are all sharing poems here anyway.

    I like that you took lines from one of your poems to create something new, Kim. I love the idea of “stars on my fingertips” and the constellations.

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  3. Love “creating constellations
    from stars on my fingertips.”

    What wonderful imagery!, Kim. The poetic conceit of such “balled emotion” right in your pocket works beautifully.

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  7. I must confess Kim, I had to look to look up the word flocculent. Then I read this poem and then the original pocket poem. Am glad I read the two of them…..the pairing is beautiful. I think, side-by-side these are wonderful….unraveling, creating constellations. Beautiful.

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  9. I love the pocket, and constellation of stars Kim. Love specially these lines: 

    a loose knit of present and past;
    from stars on my fingertips
    a net across the sky is cast.

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