AMERICAN CINQUAIN COLLECTION

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AMERICAN CINQUAINS

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in shapely form,

displaying syllables

or stresses in a versatile

refrain.

Created.@ same time circa 1910's by Adelaide Crapsey in US &followed by in 1930's (in Scotland )by William Soutar see https://www.amazon.co.uk/Flowers-Life-Selection-William-Soutar/ edited by Brian Strand ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1903203477

How slight
The petal of
A poppy,flowering-
So much like us,beautiful,yet
Fragile

Hurry
Takes its toll as
In our daily stroll,we
From deepest ruts of blind alleys
Quicken

Beauty
free from above
embedded in our heart-
His loving-kindness ..ready to
impart


The warmth
Of love's invite
Encompassed my desire,
In two soft whispered words of love,
Be mine !


Eyes closed
As lips caressed,
Mouths joined,impassioned
Tongues explore,in our love's embrace,
Time-framed


My love
Beguiled me,with
Soft sensuous lips,sleek
Long thighs with rounded hips,twinned heart's
Enlaced

Long days
Of August sun
Where nature blinks and shrinks
The dying grass,yellowed in sleep-
Held fast


Night chills
the aging bones-
blowing on the east wind
flurries fine and dry settle on
new graves.

These be
the keys to life,
faith,hope and agape,
love,the greatest gift of all three-
to thee !

Desire
welled within-
words became a promise
so sublime,to love now and for
all time.


We had
met and conversed,
a rapport on first sight-
a chance meeting to a life's time
delight

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