Parenting Is A Big Job For All!
Am I right, or is it nothing, until they get tall?
Pantoum: Poetic Form
The pantoum originated in Malaysia in the fifteenth-century as a short folk poem, typically made up of two rhyming couplets The modern pantoum is a poem of any length, composed of four-line stanzas in which the second and fourth lines of each stanza serve as the first and third lines of the next stanza. The last line of a pantoum is often the same as the first.
One exciting aspect of the pantoum is its subtle shifts in meaning that can occur as repeated phrases are revised with different punctuation and thereby given a new context.
The most basic form of the pantoum is a quatrain with an abab rhyme scheme. Each line contains between eight and twelve syllables.
Is parenting a big job for all?
Raising babies takes a village some say!
Some say it is truly a ball!
Not sure I would go that far today!
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Raising babies takes a village some say,
not as much fun as when they get tall!
Not sure I would go that far today,
it is more the age for going to the mall!
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Not as much fun as they get tall,
loving them, just not always liking them okay?
It is more the age for going to the mall.
The teen can be why we stop having babies, hey?
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Loving them, just not always liking them is okay!
And then they can all be such a doll.
The teenager can be the reason we stop having babies, hey!
So helpful with their siblings when you hit a wall!
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And then they can be such a doll.
It is their job to break away!
So helpful with their siblings when you hit a wall?
The course for parents is for us to stay.
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It is their job to break away,
sometimes it is a simple stall?
The course for parents is for us to stay,
and then there are those that you can call.
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Sometimes it is a simple stall!
Until they can get what it is they may!
And then there are those that you can call!
And it may help you along the way.
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Until they can get what it is they may.
For some, they may take a big fall,
and it may help you along the way!
Parenting is a big job for all!
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Adapted from a poem written in 2020 on Facebook for my Poem A Day In February when trying out a new format.
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Denise E Lindquist
I am married with 7 children, 28 grands, and 13 great-grandchildren. I am a culture consultant part-time. I write A Poem a Day in February for 8 years now. I wrote 4 - 50,000 word stories in NaNoWriMo. I write on Vocal/Medium daily.
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Outstanding and superbly written!!! Love it💖💕
This is a great parenting poem! I had never heard of a pantoum. It’s always interesting to read new poetic forms.