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This is a form of poem called a Pantoum. Four line stanzas. You take the 2nd & 4th lines of stanza #1 and make them the 3rd and 4th lines of stanza #2--then you write new 2nd and 4th lines for stanza #2 which present a new context and meaning for new line 1 & 3. Repeat.

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    1. 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.

    2. 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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