TheWombwellRainbow #PoeticFormChallenge. It is weekly. I will post the challenge to create a first draft of a poetic form by the following late Sunday. Please email your first draft to me, including an updated short, third person bio and a short prose piece about the challenges you faced and how you overcame them. Except when I’m working at the supermarket I am always ready to help those that get stuck. Already given some folk a headstart by saying the second #prompt is an #Pantoum. I will blog my progress throughout the week. Hopefully it may help the stumped. Also below please find links to helpful websites. – Yesterday and today: Merril's historical musings

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A pantoum is a Malaysian form of oral poetry that features repeating lines that change meaning throughout the poem.

The essence of the pantoum form is a pattern of repetition of lines.

In the first stanza, none of the four lines repeats.

After the first stanza, the repetition begins:

The first line of the new stanza is a repeat of the second line in the previous stanza

The third line of the new stanza is a repeat of the fourth line in the previous stanza.

The second and fourth lines of the new stanza are new lines, not seen before.

But then in the next stanza, those new lines come back as the first and third lines of the new stanza! So they get reused in their turn.

(from https://www.writebetterpoems.com/articles/how-to-write-a-pantoum)

Helpful Links

https://www.masterclass.com/articles/how-to-write-a-pantoum-poem

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantoum

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