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It’s probably harder to write a good dirty limerick. A Pantoum ia just 4 X 4, and each stanza you steal 2 lines from the one before. And the 4th stanza you cop the 2nd and 4th lines from #1st line of the poem in stanza 1, and line #3 in the first stanza, so that final stanza writes itself.
I got most of my better lines in this one by blindly rolling the lines farther down, just to see if I could write new 2nd and 4th lines that would change the contextual meaning. It’s almost like the poem is prompting new ideas for partner lines as I look at the next verse to write.
The form also forces me to focus on the writing itself–not “philosophizing” about what I want the poem to mean.
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Dear RJ
What a wonderfulwrite and what lovely artwork.
Glad you joined and can’t wait to read the next one.
You promise to do that, writing the next don’t you?
Thankyou!!!
Kind regards, Gus
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