Any
Fool can write a
Cinquain just by counting
Syllables. Hence few cinquains are
Poems!
Author notes
I wrote this some 40 years back, as part of a(n unfinished) series of mnemonics on various verse forms...
A contest entry
- Cinquain by Yemassee.
554 points, ended June 21, 2008, 23 entries
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
Please do not feel obliged to comment - and if you DO comment, please understand that it may be some time before I respond.
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I must be a fool...though Ive written word and syllable count cinquains...I believe the end result is a story told or a message delivered...smoothly...not choppy words put into a stanza...also...id think myself a fool to call myself a poet LOL
Mal
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Further to your comment of 19 June....Well, of course, some cinquains do turn out to possess real poetic quality. But it does seem to me that a huge number of people seem to consider that syllabic verse is a soft option... and produce what you would call "choppy words". The same goes for free verse of course!
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Memorable, that you preserved it
and the rest of your series!!!!
Too often we rate only the present relevant.
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Oh and and any fool can count WORDS, but can they count syllables Vera? (line four)
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Thank you...Point taken... But I was remembering this at 40 years distance.
It comes to mind now that line 4 was originally
#Syllables. Hence few cinquains are!"
I shall alter this once the competition is over... I feel it would not be correct to do it before!
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Feisty indeed! Wow, for 40 years you have been playing Don Quixote battling giants with your sword which of course is only a pen, and the giants just little 22 syllable poems.
Your point is taken Vera, though fools can do many things, it's better that they write cinquains than making American policy and doing open heart surgery. If our foolhardy actions were only limited to writing poems that weren't poetic, but instead we apply it to hurting others, in any of a myriad of forms and degrees. It's also interesting that while we point our swords at others, we seldom point them at our own follies. But I'll save my pen from further battle for I doubt it has the power to change 40 years of conviction.
Thanks for entering my humble fool's contest. AP is a fun place, I meet so many interesting people.
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Feisty
That sums it up, form poetry is as good as the poet who writes it. Never change!
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Vera, that's priceless! Rage and beauty at the same time. Best Wishes. K.
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To-the-point. I always remark that "any fool can learn to drive a car - which fact is proved by the number of fools that do", so I understand the sentiment. I always admire people who are prepared to prove that they can do the very thing they criticise, however.
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