#14

At the start of the week, we were assigned to read the Villanelle and Pantoum packet. When I was reading the packet I was thinking this was going to be very hard for me, and indeed it was very difficult. I took me almost three hours to come up with a pantoum to bring to class today. But of course I did it the difficult way, instead of using all the lines from the sheet. I chose one line and came up with a poem using that one line. But I must say after I went through this overly exhausted process, I discovered that the Pantoum poem was not as bad as I thought it would. It was very difficult for me to get it to flow and come together and actually make sense. I guess you can say I actually found a formed poem that a liked. Well here is the poem I came up with.

A life filled with hardship
But I go on,
with purpose and dignity
praying for better days

But I go on.
Through acts of discouragements
praying for a better day
looking past all obstacles,

throughout acts of discouragements
negative influences and disappointments,
facing all obstacles
letting nothing stand in the way of my dream,

Negative influences and disappointments
arise on defenseless occasions.
But nothing stand in the way of my dream
Motivation is only necessary.

defenseless occasions arise
with purpose and dignity
motivation is only necessary
for a life filled with hardships.

I would really appreciate any comments and suggestions to make this a better pantoum.