A Summer’s Day
Sunshine
Beckons me out
To play and live life full
The sea is where I go to dance
And feast
Autumnal Fall
The leaves
Twist gold and red
And drift like butterflies
To earth, settling on crisp, cooled ground
A shawl
A Winter's Morn
The mist
Like clouds of wool
Blankets the town below
And hides her from my eyes till noon
Then leaves
Springtime Serenade
Birds tweet
And bees busy
While flowers sprout and bloom
To chorus a joyous welcome
Life's tune
© 2010 K A Little. All Rights Reserved.
About the Cinquain
From Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinquain:
The cinquain form was invented by the American poet Adelaide Crapsey, inspired by Japanese haiku and tanka.[1]
In her 1915 collection titled Verse, published one year after her death, Crapsey included 28 cinquains.[2]
Crapsey's cinquains utilized an increasing syllable count in the first four lines, namely two in the first, four in the second, six in the third, and eight in the fourth, before returning to two syllables on the last line. In addition, though little emphasized by critics, each line in the majority of Crapsey cinquains has a fixed number of stressed syllables, as well, following the pattern one, two, three, four, one. The most common metrical foot in her twenty-eight published examples is the iamb, though this is not exclusive. Lines generally do not rhyme. In contrast to the Eastern forms upon which she based them, Crapsey always titled her cinquains, effectively utilizing the title as a sixth line.
The form is illustrated by Crapsey's "November Night":[3]
Listen...
With faint dry sound,
Like steps of passing ghosts,
The leaves, frost-crisp'd, break from the trees
And fall.
The Crapsey cinquain has subsequently seen a number of variations by modern poets.
TIP:
Enter the amount, and click "Tip" to submit!
M. C. S.
WhatsMe
T. Dailey
J D Smith
eyespye
Rachel Coyne
Salon.com
Comments
like i did'nt
have enough to make me
crazy little kate says write me
cinquains
I couldn't even
find the right place for the
apostrophe in didn't is
n't it
Pilgrim: Thank you so much, my friend! And, yep, gotta watch out for those birds ... they've been so far ahead of their time for so long now it's just not funny! They invented 'tweeting'!
Dave: Thank you. Cheers mate! You're blood's worth bottlin'!
Ladyslipper: It's so nice of you to say so! Thank you.
Patrick: It was my pleasure!
sophieh: To receive such a wonderful comments, like yours, is very inspiring indeed. Thank you.
Like clouds of wool
Blankets the town below
trilogy: Thank you, my friend. I can always count on you to be here with wonderful words of encouragement!
Marty's Husband: I'm not too sure that I am very disciplined but I am so glad you enjoyed them. Thank you for coming here to read.
Mark: Thank you!