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Memory Refreshers:

• Write a pantoum

• Our pantoum challenge will remain open until 13/02.

• Please indicate in your posts that your poems are contributions to this challenge by including the following "Pantoum challenge" or "Current challenge" in your titles. We will as usual, collect them all and post them together (here) after the challenge ends(13/02).

• What is a Modern Pantoum?

A modern pantoum consists of an indefinite number of four-line stanzas. Lines 2 & 4 of the first stanza are used as lines 1 & 3 on the second stanza. Usually the paired lines are also rhymed. The last line of a pantoum is often(not always) the same as the first. The lines may be of any length.

> Two good examples of the pantoum are:

Carolyn Kizer’s Parent's Pantoum:
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15246

Evening Harmony By Charles Baudelaire

http://poetbay.com/viewText.php?textId=82767

If you want to learn more about this poetic form visit:
www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/5786 poetry.about.com/od/poeticforms/g/pantoum.htm