The poetic form used for this love story is villanelle.  I bet this lovely couple is still together.  Enjoy.

GIANT PANDA

Show me love, Amanda.

Let me be your teddy bear.

I want to be your giant panda.

Here’s a shoot of bamboo manna.

That your pretty teeth can wear.

Show me love, Amanda.

In the lower forest of a “montana,”*

Will you spend the winter with me there?

I want to be your giant panda.

I would like to make your mother a nana,

Just me and you making an heir.

Show me love, Amanda.

I’ve paid no attention to Anna,

But in you I’ve gotten lost in a stare.

I want to be your giant panda.

You know I don’t believe in Santa.

You must be the gift that God spared.

Show me love, Amanda!

I want to be your giant panda.

*Spanish for mountain

by Naaman Hills

from A Mountain of an Artist

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