Lost EunoiaMy grasp
Weakens in time
Gravel loosens...my grip
Upon furtive blooms in my youth
I roar!
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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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Author’s Note:
Twilight Whispers captures the soft, vanishing edges of farewell as day dissolves into night. In this quiet threshold, fading breaths and distant echoes drift through the dusk—subtle, haunting, and intangible. The poem reflects on the fragile nature of parting, where goodbyes are felt more than...
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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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Author’s Note:
This poem captures the silent weight of emotional pain—how it lingers, fractures, and slowly fades into silence. The image of a shadow lost within speaks to the hidden struggles we carry, the parts of ourselves we release quietly. It ends with an unspoken goodbye—gentle, invisible, but...
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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
winter cinquainwinter
frosty crystals
sledding slipping sliding
treacherous frustrating fleeting
winter...
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Categories:
winter,
Form: Cinquain
Tangy Oh Butterfly Cinquain
Go squeeze
lemons and limes,
taste the torrential tart.
Let your knees buckle beneath you,
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Categories:
emotions, feelings, food, happiness,
Form: Cinquain
Leo The Lion
I'm Leo the Lion, I am, I am
From the mystical world of Astrology
I'm generous, strong and warmhearted
That's if you believe in symbology
Not making this up, check it out
Masculine, positive and extroverted
If I listen too carefully, my head will swell
Which should definitely be averted
My wife suggested widening the doorways
Or I might severely injure my brain
Methinks my...
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Categories:
children, mom,
Form: Cinquain
QuicksandQuicksand,
happy to sad.
Mad morass of the mind.
Looped labyrinth of wavy lines,
no end....
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Categories:
emotions, feelings, humanity, introspection,
Form: Cinquain
The rainThe rain,
Pain of farmers,
Devastates crops fully,
Put the farmers in dilemma,
The pain.
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Categories:
animal, anxiety, art,
Form: Cinquain
Season of Love
The spring,
Flowers Magic
Spreads fragrance all around,
Pain of separation pangs hearts,
The Love...
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Categories:
allegory, america, analogy, anxiety,
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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