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Ooh a pantoum, fancy! My friend writes them but I have never tried, would you say they are easier or harder than a villanelle? I could really use some kind of training wheel to get a handle on villanelles, the form is so alluring but they always mangle my ideas into nonsense.

I hope the feedback in our workshops is what you are looking for. 

Absolutely, I have already learnt a lot here just by reading commentaries on other people's poems and some of the helpful guides. I am sure I will get better eventually. I am glad you liked the Siren song, it seems my joke poems are the only ones that land. There is a lesson in there, if only I were not too proud to learn it