Showing posts with label cinquain. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cinquain. Show all posts

Monday, April 3, 2023

April - Poetry Month - Day Three - Cinquain

  




       Happy Poetry Month, where poems parade in the streets, run like rivers within our veins or settle in our hearts every.single,time. 
       I am planning to use this older book pictured left that follows the alphabet with one kind of prompt each day. I used this book on occasion in the classroom years ago, but never worked through it day by day, with deliberation! Here goes!

Today I wrote thanks to Laura Purdie-Salas' challenge HERE. Must choose one of the topics & use the words she posts. It isn't an easy task, but fun finally to create something that made sense. 


       Today, for your information: 
The Rules of a Cinquain

These are the rules: Cinquains are five lines long. They have 2 syllables in the first line, 4 in the second, 6 in the third, 8 in the fourth line, and just 2 in the last line. Cinquains do not need to rhyme, but you can include rhymes if you want to.

Thursday, November 2, 2017

Poetry Friday - November Welcome

        Welcome to Poetry Friday, the 'after party' edition and a welcome to November. 



November Night

Listen...
With faint dry sound,
Like steps of passing ghosts,
The leaves, frost-crisp'd, break from the trees
And fall.

--by Adelaide Crapsey 


         Adelaide Crapsey, creator of one of the cinquain forms, and a creator of this well-known favorite poem of mine, known by many of you I'm sure. You can find a collection of others by her here. And the poets.org site offers this biography. Here is my own November observation.


November Tree

Unmasked --
divine design,
thin arms surprised by sun.  
Its leaves that cling wink at a breeze,

persist.
Linda Baie © All Rights Reserved

            Find gratitude this month for all that is good about our world, including poetry, and find ways to make better that which is needed.