Monday, June 11, 2007

Rendezvous [ a pantoum]

I watched him from the window,

Under the awning of the coffee shop

Across the street from my house,

Waiting for the rain to stop


Under the awning of the coffee shop

His eyes kept darting down the road

Waiting for the rain to stop

His hair all damp and tousled,


His eyes kept darting down the road

Looking at time again and again,

His hair all damp and tousled,

Face stormy as the skies overhead


Looking at time again and again,

Finally having made up his mind,

Face stormy as the skies overhead,

He left the coffee shop behind


Finally having made up his mind,

he stepped out in the pouring rain,

He left the coffee shop behind

And faded away down the lane


He stepped out in the pouring rain

Across the street from my house,

And faded away down the lane

As I watched him from my window.

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[About Pantoums read here-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantoum]

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