“What do you think?” 4 stanza
© A. Potter ~2021
Hour 4 : The Poetry Marathon
Book chosen: Erma Bombeck “Family- the Ties that bind and gag” [last line: what do you think]
What do you think
Oh, interrogatory
the mind endlessly spinning
Calmly creating art
Oh, interrogatory
Where does this one lead
Calmly creating art
Pen in hand, she marks
Where does this one lead
Page by page fill with ink
Pen in hand, she marks
Between the lines, she’s free
Page by page fill with ink
What do you think
Between the lines, she’s free
the mind endlessly spinning
I love how this one turned out. I find it so hard to write pantoums.
I love this poem, the structure of a Pantoum is incredibly intricate. It reminds me very much of the Villanelle, and I am baffled that I haven’t properly ‘found’ this style until this marathon. A reminder that I am a student and eternal learner of a craft that is vast and varied.
I really like the evolution and flow of this poem, the line “pen in hand, she marks” is particularly prominent within this poem, in the context of the marathon, each new poem sometimes feels like a cross on a calendar and it’s a beautifully vivid image I get in this line of the hand as it crosses another box, marking another achievement.
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Darren Syme Coremans (@dscoremans)
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