POEM STARTER
Write a winter Pantoum.
A pantoum is a poem where each stanza is 4 lines, and the second and fourth line of each stanza are repeated as the first and third lines of the next. As this creates a lot of repetition, try to pick a winter theme that would benefit from emphasis of certain lines.
Devoured
Soft snow parries cold dead earth
Weaves a blanket spotless, clean
Swallows up the bone and birth
Not a speck nor stone is seen
Weaves a blanket spotless, clean
Hides away the flesh still warm
Not a speck nor stone is seen
There’s no evidence; no harm
Hides away the flesh still warm
Swallows up the begging screams
There’s no evidence; no harm
No more sleep, eyelids; no dreams
Swallows up the begging screams
With shards of crystal glass-cut ice
No more sleep, eyelids; no dreams
Perfection always has its price
With shards of crystal glass-cut ice
It carves out every withered flaw
Perfection always has its price
It burns away what was once raw
It carves out every withered flaw
And blankets all in blinding white
It burns away what was once raw
With frost’s most vicious sparkling bite
