Note that a pantoum can be in a regular meter or, as below, in a free pattern of feet, so long as the repetitive-line form is followed. Rhyme might also appear, but in the modern pantoum, it is no longer necessary. GODS Harmonious, flutes entwine within adobe walls. Shadows cast to call the spirit of wandering Kokopelli. Within adobe walls voices rise in song of wandering Kokopelli.
Couples sway, entranced and warmed, voices rise in song.
Readying themselves, recalling promise of fertility, anticipate the mating yet to come, reach out ancestral hands. Recalling promise of fertility, shadows cast to call the spirit, reach out ancestral hands. . . Harmonious, flutes entwine. Unfortunately, that way is not always the right way, and does not often enough make good poets. Further, it even less often makes good haikuists.