CW Poetry Class: Week 4 Poem

My mom had to raise me and my sisters nearly alone, and she is a great inspiration to me. Her favorite poem is “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost so I borrowed a few lines from it. This specific form of poem is called a pantoum in which the lines 2 and 4 from the first stanza become lines 1 and 3 in the next and on goes.

Mama’s Poem

She bore great burdens as child and mother,

and ended up both mother and father.

She braved the world, her and three girls.

Where did she get her strength from?

She was both our mother and father

and raised us on her own.

Where did she get the strength

and courage to take the road less travelled by?

She raised us on her own

and got her bachelor’s degree.

She showed us the road less travelled by,

and how to make a difference