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Expelled

I will never forget that fateful day
The meeting started as they called the roll
A card carrying member of the PTA
To Improve the school was our only goal

The meeting started as they called the roll
“Here” I said, when they started the blame
To Improve the school was our only goal
I raised my hand when they called my name

“Here” I said, when they started the blame
"There was pot in the brownies and you put it there!"
I raised my hand when they called my name
"I was trying to help the annual school fair"

"There was pot in the brownies and you put it there!"
“I thought you stuffed shirts, would need a little high”
“I was trying to help the annual school fair”
I told the blue haired ladies; “Ok goodbye”

“I thought you stuffed shirts would need a little high”
A card carrying member of the PTA
I told the blue haired ladies; “Ok goodbye”
I will never forget that fateful day

 

 

 

Author notes

Pantoum Poetry
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 third line of the poem recurs as the second line of the closing quatrain, rhyming ZAZA.

The design is simple:

Line 1
Line 2
Line 3
Line 4

Line 5 (repeat of line 2)
Line 6
Line 7 (repeat of line 4)
Line 8

Continue with as many stanzas as you wish, but the ending stanza then repeats the second and fourth lines of the previous stanza (as its first and third lines), and also repeats the third line of the first stanza, as its second line, and the first line of the first stanza as its fourth. So the first line of the poem is also the last.

Last stanza:

Line 2 of previous stanza
Line 3 of first stanza
Line 4 of previous stanza
Line 1 of first stanza

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  • Swan song gold member
    September 30, 2007

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    LOL How did you know we did that to our home economics teacher. But we used hashis instead of pot that works better because she was laughing so hard I think she almost peed her pants!
    As always you are awesome love


  • Periwinkle Blue
    September 21, 2007

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    Happy I read this...

    Glad to read this because I like the sound of it... and want to learn how to write this form. Really fun to read here, and thank you for the directions in your author's notes.


  • Cerulean Sunrise gold member
    September 20, 2007
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    I enjoyed this form. I love it.
    Makes me chuckle.

    Much Love


  • PerVirtuous
    September 19, 2007
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    Harper Valley will never be the same... I love it... got any leftovers?


  • azure85 gold member
    September 19, 2007

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    LOL The topic is one to make me laugh alot, and your beautiful choice of form is lovely. What a great take on the theme!


  • HaleyMary
    September 19, 2007

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    Another beautiful form write. Every time I read your poems I learn a new form. I wonder how many forms of poetry you know? You seem to know so much you could probably be a poetry teacher. Good luck in the contest.


  • StarEyes
    September 19, 2007

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    WOW!!!!!

    Ok Miss Form Queen! I give! You know so many wonderful forms, I will never master them all! hehe. This is fantastic!! What a great job on this one!! I love it!!

    Best of luck in this contest!

    and much love

    Nyetta


  • Melodies
    September 19, 2007

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    Oh, you adorable smarty!!

    I love this very humorous form poem... a pantoum! I never thought to write a funny one, but now I see how it can be done! The story is so delightful and the repeating lines really set it off!


    • Amera gold member
      September 19, 2007
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      hehe... your contests are so much fun. You come up with the best inspiration.

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