Pantoum Poem – Snow Leopard Hunting Season
So she kept prowling the mountain side
Hoping to keep her off spring alive
Food was scarce after bushfires
There was no place to hide
Hoping to keep her off spring alive
She slipped down the mountain side
There was no place to hide
Late autumn in the bush it was suicide
She slipped down the mountain side
Landing rather hard on her backside
Late autumn in the bush it was suicide
She came across a large slip
Landing rather hard on her backside
Not seeing straight everything was magnified
She came across a large slip
There were two deers ready for supply
Not seeing straight everything was magnified
Focusing should have been a easy routine
There were two deers ready for supply
Those deers were on the other side of the slip
Focusing should have been a easy routine
Food was scarce after bushfires
Those deers were on the other side of the slip
So she kept prowling the mountain side
How to Write a Pantoum Poem
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