Best Quintet Poems

Word Quintet in C Major

By Stark Hunter

Open the door my friend,
Climb on in,
Join me here in this relentless caravan,
This unstoppable, this incontrovertible, 
this inexorable movement,
To the depths of the dry gulf.
Join me here my friend,
In this annihilating armada,
This incontrovertible migration,
This inexorable swarm
To the watery crossroads...

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Sunset sky was like a fiery red flame
wistful touch on her hair with a sigh
Warm, sweet smell of cinnamon apple pie
A rose in my safe caress. Butterfly
heavenly feelings as cupid took aim

© 6/22/2015




Contest Name: Five Lines/ Metaphors And Simile 
Sponsor: Sara Kendrick
Envelope Quintet
10 syllables a,b,b,b,a...

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BUTTERFLIES

Butterflies, in danger, realise,
and many have already gone extinct!
They could not adapt to climate warming.           •
The Wallbrown lost in my local precinct.           /
How many more...

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Summer has quickly come and gone 
you can smell the Fall in the air 
tomorrow will bring a new dawn 
look around, trees are going bare 
Fall jackets, people start to wear. 

Copyright © Cynthia Jones 
Sept.24/2013 

I figured I would try something different (as...

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The Frog, Translation of Etiemble’s quintet: La grenouille by T. Wignesan 

(This quintet rhymed: ababc might in its propos -
perhaps in its imagery and allusion - be based on some family history involving the tragedy 
over a son and the subsequent adoption of a daughter....

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The temporary altar, Translation of Etiemble’s quintet: Le reposoir by T. Wignesan
							For us

As for me, I have renounced the noxious vault
where the other life child concealed a father 
whom he had sometimes betrayed his mother
who took him for someone else
the baby she sensed to be...

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Five mice form a quintet and sing their heart song.
Many brides hear them and sing right along.
Pretty soon they are making money with their happy tune.
Their sense of music and style is giant, over the moon.

They make a business out of it and become quite...

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Word Quintet in E Minor

Too many tan hearses cruise down my street in 1963
Too many grieving souls cry shattered tears here.
Green throbbing lawns ruminate like grazing cows.
Red-bricked chimneys stand erect in the tall wind.

You and I have footsteps to take as we smell gladioli in...

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PHRASIS V1
How different the voice,the tone
this tendency,sceptical despondency
only too plain.Wild hopes,extravagant
impatience,decided preference made
manifest,turns aside from the world
and thinks pity,pathos and pious
resignation.Privileged invalids,such
moping minstrels,utterly unhappy
‘cradle to grave’ see only their superior 
sighs.A wave of disillusion,of doubt,
misgiving in abstract wisdom permeat
every utterance and infiltrates every stratum 
of...

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The sea is angry,
The winds echo her screaming;
The hurricane comes…

Torrential waves
Carry furry to the shores:
Fragility doomed…

Island paradise,
Poised and ready for combat;
Nature’s sad beauty…

Juxtaposition,
Nature canvassing herself:
Springtime hurricanes…

The calm sea rippling;
Lifeless bodies float ashore
The storm moves…...

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My   Dearest   LENORE
                             My HEART and SOUL Miss YOU so
   ...

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Today, strum music rifts!
Sound, alive, dance, enjoy!
Today feels happy, lifts
you're poems final envoi.
Shush, quiet, sound shift.

Quite clear, noted cants!
Heard... monks arise... chant!

Folks enjoy life's short
trips, learn, catch today,
stark facts ensue...  abort...
you're final peace... delay!
Fears you'll often court!

Quite clear, noted cants!
Heard... monks arise... chant!
Peace stops...

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The thunder pounded in the night,
impending storm, a tension felt.
The darkness trembled with delight
as clouds protruded like a welt,
and air with trepidation dealt.

The thunder pounded in the night,
and lightning flashed across the sky.
The anxious night was glowing bright;
anticipations running high
as lovers gazed into their eyes.

The...

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You struggle with right and wrong
I watch and worry so
With prayers I helped along
Now time for me to go
Who will pray when I am gone...

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Tracks of the cross hid from sight
The blood that shed dust now blend
Nails of iron frail and light
Wood has rot as wood does tend
Breath of Christ alive in the wind...

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