Mindful Poetry Contest (Pantoum): Girl With The Pearl Earring

Girl With The Pearl Earring

  

A look, that slight coquette stare.

Is that hesitation in your eyes?

Forever captured, oh lady fair,

veracity locked behind disguise.

 

Is that hesitation in your eyes

or adoration, a longing to know,

veracity locked behind disguise?

Did a whisper set your face aglow,

 

or adoration, a longing to know

what lingered in a wanting heart?

Did a whisper set your face aglow,

painted sweet lustre in lips that part?

 

What lingered in a wanting heart?

Who left your vivid, elusive demand,  

painted sweet lustre in lips that part?

What gave you elegance so grand?

 

Who left your vivid, elusive demand,

forever captured, oh lady fair.

What gave you elegance so grand,

a look, that slight coquette stare?

 

 

The Prompt:

Your method of writing a pantoum could take a variety of approaches. You might write out 5 pairs of heroic couplets, cut them up, and rearrange them to fit the form. You might write the poem directly as the form dictates. However you do it, do it today!

If you are new to this group or contest, go here to learn more and then come back to participate in today's challenge.

Follow these rules:

1. A minimum of 12 lines,
2. which would be three stanzas,
3. since each line repeats you only need 6 original lines
4. Rhyme scheme: a-b-a-b, b-c-b-c, etc, until the last stanza where you'd repeat the "a" rhyme like this: c-a-c-a.
5. Today's prompt: ekphrastic Use a painting by Johann Vermeer.
6. Provide either a graphic or a link to the painting you used
7. Publish so that the date stamped is April 6th
8. Tag with MP2012
9. Publish to Mindful Poetry  and to Rogues Gallery (and other groups as you wish)