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NA PO MO National Poetry Month

by Susan Cowger 7 Comments

What is in a name? In this case, permission. National Poetry Month: Permission to write a poem. Or read a poem. Consider poetry. Poetry. The most condensed form of language. Don’t be afraid–its all just playing with words.

Each year I try to change it up. This time a Pantoum. Please join me. Post your poem in the comments.

The basic Pantoum outline is this:

Stanza 1
line 1
line 2
line 3
line 4
Stanza 2
repeat line 2 in stanza 1 
new
line
repeat line 4 in stanza 1
new
line
Stanza 3
repeat line 6 in stanza 2
repeat line 3 in stanza 1
repeat line 8 in stand 2
repeat
line 1 in stanza 1
Small changes are allowed in repeated lines.
Actually any poem at all, yours or one that you love, is welcome in the comments. Enjoy this month.
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  1. thefisherlady says

    January 3, 2014 at 8:37 am

    the basic Pantoum is fun~ I will be playing with it

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  3. OZsupplier says

    April 24, 2013 at 12:11 pm

    So amazing. Wading in the torrent I knew as you…as Bethany said—I keep turning it over in my mind.
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  4. Kathy says

    April 3, 2013 at 1:58 am

    My first Pantoum: for Mama

    Green thumbs tug waging war
    Lost in the garden
    Red clover, cestrum, thistle
    Sunshine with laughter mix

    Lost in the garden
    Strawberry juice drips
    Sunshine with laughter mix
    Mother, daughter, friends

    Strawberry juice drips
    Canopy pop corn clouds
    Mother, daughter, friends
    Cool grass rises, we rest.

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  5. Kathy says

    April 3, 2013 at 1:52 am

    I loved this Susan. So amazing. Wading in the torrent I knew as you…as Bethany said—I keep turning it over in my mind.

    I've never written a Panoum. Am working on one.

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  6. Craig and Bethany says

    April 2, 2013 at 5:46 pm

    Ooo, it's an ebbing, flowing torrent. The images layer beautifully.

    Blue eyes, damp hair rumpled around the ears, my favorite line. LOVE the rhythm, and the image mimics the waves in texture but contrasts it in content. It's perfectly delicious. I keep turning it over in my mind.

    And a Pantoum! What a great idea.

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  7. Brian Miller says

    April 2, 2013 at 1:30 pm

    the torrent i knew as you is a great line…and it sets the mood in the whole thing for me, even with the turn to the child it is still in the shadow of that torrent…

    home with my boy, break
    from school, poeming between
    playing-time to go

    smiles

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