History Cinquain Poems

Observe
Do not react
Make desires a focal
Give your attention to desires
Control....

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Castle
Soaring above
city streets old and new
Magnificent  monumental
Stronghold
...

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Nameless-
they are now gone
vanished too, from our view;
removed from our history past-
destroyed.

Statues
that once stood tall
in praise of current feats-
smashed, gone, to forever remain
unknown.

Banished
from sight and...

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Audra
Bringing freedom
Through their literature
Her Lithuanians name's meaning:
Stormy!



(About main character in "Words on Fire" by Jennifer A. Nielsen)...

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King
godlike, omnipotent.
Gold encrusted bloodline
held within history’s hourglass.
Eternal....

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Days seem long  and the nights so cold,
The cloudless skies tells it all,
Of how her spirit felt lost and all alone,
And her feelings out...

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The sounds 
                    Of air moving...

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Attack
Vaguely warlike
Guiltless people suffer
Dreadful losses, heroes arise
Assail...

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Traces
In the wet sand
Footprints of gulls, and man
Disappear in the tidal dance
Of waves.

Traces
In the red dust
Feet of man, and horses
Up in canyons, leave no trace...

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Dinosaurs
ancient history
seen in museums
wouldn’t be much fun
if alive...

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Baby
Smallest Human
Cooing And Kicking Fun
Parents Favorite Gem of Their Love
Infant...

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Each shoe,
a life He knew,
buds of His olive tree-
next time perhaps,it could be you..
or me !



Inspired by Abe's photos...

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The Lone Star State

Texas
displays bigness,
roses and bluebonnets
a few past U.S. Presidents 
cowboys.

© Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
January 19, 2010

Poetic form: Cinquain...

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Bygones,
a canope
on progress' menu,cast -
or merely,an afterglow of 
our past ?...

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