FLASH DANCEFLASH DANCE*
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fireflies
flicker, enchant
dancing amongst the stars
suspended pieces of glitter
flash dance
*Note: I originally published this at Poetry Soup in June 2025 (poetrysoup.com › flash_dance_1738383) but later deleted it. This is my original poem.
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Categories:
12th grade, nature, summer,
Form: Cinquain
PINK PERFECTIONPINK PERFECTION
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lotus
pink perfection
rising from murky depths
unfolding beauty, grace, and peace
hope
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Categories:
12th grade, flower, hope,
Form: Cinquain
Sweet Jazz Night
Bluesy
swinging sipper—
Sax in fancy suede taps,
keys go snippety, ivory
sprinkles...
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Categories:
art, color, music, song,
Form: Cinquain
Fall of Western civilizationNickel
and dimed, nickel
and dimed: the neglected
human center can't hold undone
for gold....
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Categories:
abuse, betrayal, change, conflict,
Form: Cinquain
Those Words Within Your Poem 7/14/2025
Humane?
You pen with shame!
Selling your dignity?
Tell me, why trash your only voice?
No, thanks!
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Categories:
poets,
Form: Cinquain
Stamina
Fragile
ceiling of glass,
growth can be slow progress.
You feel like you’re burning alive.
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Categories:
emotions, endurance, feelings,
Form: Cinquain
Lost EunoiaMy grasp
Weakens in time
Gravel loosens...my grip
Upon furtive blooms in my youth
Lost son
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Categories:
aubade,
Form: Cinquain
You
I do
believe in you
words you say, deeds you lay
everything that you are is true
I draw...
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Categories:
identity, language, life,
Form: Cinquain
aprilapril
cold thunderstorms
beginning of flowers
fertile festive fey like feeling
april...
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Categories:
april,
Form: Cinquain
EnigmaMissed links
Clawed wings, blue cheeks,
Rufous crest, maroon eyes
Gawky gait, baffling diet, odd
Bird stinks*
*Hoatzin bird...
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Categories:
bird,
Form: Cinquain
CRAPSEY'S AMERICAN CINQUAIN exampled DIDACTIC 2A. INTRO
AMERICAN CINQUAINS Adelaide's answer to the Japanese haiku
Poems
in shapely form,
displaying syllables
or stresses in a versatile
refrain.
B.DIDACTIC DISCUSSION
TITLE completely optional
FORMAT
FIRST LETTER OF LlNE CAPITALISED
line syllables/stresses
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Categories:
poetry, word play,
Form: Cinquain
Howling WildernessHowling Wilderness
windswept
bleak treeless plain
white blanketed mountains
permafrost hardened ground, I am
alone
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Categories:
nature,
Form: Cinquain
Twilight WhispersSoft fade,
Breath, shadow, echo—
Silent goodbye lingers,
Whispers drift through twilight air—
Goodbye.
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Categories:
nature,
Form: Cinquain
Quiet FarewellSilent, heavy,
Weighing, breaking, fading,
A shadow lost within—
A quiet goodbye.
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Categories:
emotions,
Form: Cinquain
SunriseDrowning
in loneliness
tears creating floods, a
kind word is the sunshine that drys
the rain...
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Categories:
loneliness,
Form: Cinquain
Specific Types of Cinquain Poems
Read wonderful cinquain poetry on the following sub-topics:
christmas, friends, funny, kids, life, love, nature, puppy, school
and more.
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