Reason A. Poteet Poet Quintain (English)

Raw Obsession

The penchant of a national leader. 
can show malignancy in things he says;
things for which his mind needs a proof-reader.
Some tempers malign as rivals start to quiz
Views have drawn the cancer,  cacoethes.

A writer’s mania – cacoethes scribendi -
appears when terrorists write a manifesto.
Do over-engaged minds stage what’s trendy?
obsessive was the groove of the fluent Victor Hugo 
and fictional,  compulsive liar – Pinocchio.

Take Hugo’s masterpiece, Les Miserables.
With surplus words, intense cravings we find
yield lawless acts, theft, prostitution which rob
disadvantaged folk of their conventional mind.
Poverty's victims are prone to spell-bind.

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Andrea Dietrich January 11, 2025 at 9:16 AM Interesting form of poetry you chose . I really liked that middle stanza. I bet this does well in the contest Reason A. Poteet January 11, 2025 at 9:26 AM I had just used the English quintain, for Connie's latest so it was fresh in mind. I sometimes cannot guess what contest hosts have in mind, especially with unfamiliar words, like cacothes.