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Pandemic Pantoum

In this pestilential year time forgot behind maskless faces false facts hold sway, it’s hard to write nice, when our world is not what should a poet in quarantine say? Behind maskless faces false facts hold sway, while plague is loose and climate still warming what can a poet in quarantine say no one cares about daffodils charming. While plague is loose and climate still warming yet best science alerts go unheeded no one cares about daffodils charming at this time transformation is needed. When best science warnings are not heeded it’s hard to write nice, when our world is not for this time transformation is needed in this pestilential year time forgot.

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Paulette Calasibetta

Date: 10/26/2021 8:50:00 AM

DWR, a poignant pantoum: Truth be told! Blessings, Paulette

D.W. Rodgers
Date: 11/4/2021 10:53:00 AM

Thanks Paulette

Josefina Costales

Date: 12/12/2020 9:34:00 PM

Hi DWR, can I submit a pantoum that I already posted here at PS, years ago?

D.W. Rodgers
Date: 12/13/2020 6:52:00 AM

The contest specifies a new work but go ahead.

Carol Louise Moon

Date: 12/2/2020 5:17:00 AM

D.W. this is a really good pantoum, especially in light of the fact that it is rhymed. This form is hard enough to do unrhymed, but you managed to rhyme it well.

D.W. Rodgers
Date: 12/2/2020 11:03:00 AM

Thanks Carol, sometimes I think rhyme helps and it certainly helps when poems are recited rather than written.

Eve Roper

Date: 11/22/2020 10:31:00 PM

Great example, D.W.. Our lives have really made a big change and maybe we needed to open our eyes and our hearts.

D.W. Rodgers
Date: 11/24/2020 6:42:00 AM

Thanks Eva

Regina Mcintosh

Date: 11/20/2020 5:27:00 AM

So sad that we're faced with such painful circumstances... I enjoyed your write and contest example. May God bless you

D.W. Rodgers
Date: 11/20/2020 5:46:00 AM

Thanks Regina all the best for your Thanksgiving week.

Silent One

Date: 11/19/2020 11:05:00 AM

It is an easy mistake to make. I have dozens of them that have not been posted on here... Thanks for the offer, but I do not enter contests...

Silent One

Date: 11/19/2020 8:57:00 AM

I do like a pantoum, have done a few myself, even did some using music titles... You did a fitting one for the theme.. Just a bit of feedback, In the last stanza, the first line in the poem is the last and the third line in the first stanza is the second line in the last stanza.. Hope that makes sense.

D.W. Rodgers
Date: 11/19/2020 10:47:00 AM

Thanks SO, yes I caught that and made the change. Like other traveling line poems they seem simple but are harder than you think. I also started a Pantoum contest, if you are interested.