puddles
and gum rubbers
sand and salt rivers rush
down rapids to a waterfall
manhole
Author notes
Cinquain
Cinquain is a short, usually unrhymed poem consisting of twenty-two syllables distributed
as 2, 4, 6, 8, 2, in five lines. It was developed by the Imagist poet, Adelaide Crapsey.
(For further information, please scroll down for an article on Cinquain from the SP Quill
Quarterly Magazine written by Deborah P Kolodji.)
Another form, sometimes used by school teachers to teach grammar, is as follows:
Line 1: Noun
Line 2: Description of Noun
Line 3: Action
Line 4: Feeling or Effect
Line 5: Synonym of the initial noun.
http://www.shadowpoetry.com/resources/wip/types.html
A contest entry
- Cinquain FUN by ckwriter69.
950 points, ended April 8, 2008, 18 entries
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest - Short Ain't All Bad; Right? by 2lullabyhaven.
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Comments
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Thanks, this is succinct. Good luck to you
lol
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Nice write, very good look at images of youth. Syllable count is correct. Thank you for entering my contest and good luck.
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I love this! You have captured that pleasure the young find in raindrops and snowpiles...well done, and good luck in the contest
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