Poetry Prompt Challenge Book

Write now.

Time to write a poem today
New form informs the way to write
This is how the poem will stay
This poem will be out of sight

Writing this out with all my might
More words to put upon a page
Just hoping that I get this right
Trying to rhyme causes rage

This poem's effect is hard to gauge
This is how the poem will stay
It's too late to change it at this stage
Time to write a poem today

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Week # 29
This week your task is to write a poem using the following form:

PANTOUM

The pantoum consists of a series of quatrains rhyming ABAB in which the second and fourth lines of a quatrain recur as the first and third lines in the succeeding quatrain; each quatrain introduces a new second rhyme as BCBC, CDCD. The first line of the series recurs as the last line of the closing quatrain, and the third line of the poem recurs as the second line of the closing quatrain, rhyming ZAZA.

Additional Requirements:
Your poem needs to be at least 8 lines,
but feel free to make it longer, if you wish.

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