*Sidenote: This was my first pantoum. Now that I’m a little removed from it, I can see that I can make it better. So, I will be working on it and posting the edited version once I do.
How to write a pantoum.
SESTINA (Inner War)
| Self-sabotage 2. self-doubt 3. self-esteem 4. Inner critic 5. Not good enough 6. war |
Stanza 1 (1,2,3,4,5,6)-
Self-sabotage,
Self-doubt,
and low self-esteem,
working in tandem with your negative inner critic
will have you believe that you’re not good enough,
leading to the inner war.
Stanza 2 (6,1,5,2,4,3)-
Being at war
with oneself is self-sabotage
at its best. Seeing oneself as not good enough
leads to much self-doubt
with a nagging inner critic
that conspires to lower your self-esteem.
Stanza 3 (3,6,4,1,2,5)-
High self-esteem
negates the inner war,
silencing that obnoxious inner critic,
disallowing self-sabotage,
self-doubt,
and thoughts of not being good enough.
Stanza 4 (5,3,2,6,1,4)-
Knowing you’re good enough
raises your self-esteem,
lowers self-doubt,
stops the inner war,
cancels the self-sabotage
and silences that obnoxious inner critic.
SESTINA (Inner War)
| Self-sabotage 2. self-doubt 3. self-esteem 4. Inner critic 5. Not good enough 6. war |
Stanza 5 (4,5,1,3,6,2)
That obnoxious inner critic,
that tells you that you’re not good enough,
leads to the self-sabotage
lowers your self-esteem,
heightens the war within,
& silences the self-doubt!
Stanza 6 (2,4,6,5,3,1)
Where there is no self-doubt,
no negative annoying inner critic,
no war within,
no voice telling you you’re not good enough,
self-esteems raise
and the self-sabotage stops.
| 1. Self-sabotage 2. self-doubt 3. self-esteem 4. Inner critic 5. Not good enough 6. war |
Stanza 7: Envoi- The envoi is only 3 sentences long and contains all six of your repeating words. The words can be in any order but the end word of each line needs to be one of your repeating words.
Ultimately, high self-esteem has the power to negate the war within. This stops the inner war that led to the self-sabotage, self-doubt, and the voice that tells you that you’re not good enough. Inner critic, take a seat, your time is up!
#Sestina #Part
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