Nature Cinquain Poems

A. 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...

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Howling Wilderness

windswept
bleak treeless plain
white blanketed mountains
permafrost hardened ground, I am
alone
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Soft 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...

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Magma,
Earth's deep anger,
Fire erupts, ash ascends,
Life's raw, transformative power,
Mountain.

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Tendrils,
Twisted, reaching,
Sun-warmed leaves, fruit hangs ripe,
Man's patient and yielding journey,
Vineyard.

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Motion,
Constant rhythm,
Crashing, receding flow,
Life's limitless, changing cycles,
Ocean.

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Darkness,
Wild wind's fierce cry,
Rain lashes, thunder booms,
Nature's raw, ferocious power,
Tempest.

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pale blue

Polar vortex/

pre-dawn light, puce, gold glow/

no match, She trades Her mere myth for

the Depth...

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Water
        Fresh, Clean
  Fast,Calm,Powerful
Unique in many Ways
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Seedlings
bloomed and blossomed
bright colors, fresh fragrance
delicate petals, thick green stems 
flowers.
 
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Awestruck
Light of daybreak
Monarch butterflies swarm
In a fluttering flight amid
Jade fields

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Tempest
Winds o'er the sea
Nature wielding power
Exposing our human frailty
Humbling
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LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT
We had
met and conversed,
a rapport on first sight-
a chance meeting to a life's time
delight
that
Summer
evening silken,
long..an encounter of
initiations together
explored
as
Desire
welled within-
words became a promise
so...

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How slight
The petal of
A poppy,flowering-
So much like us,beautiful,yet
Fragile

Hurry
Takes its toll as
In our daily stroll,we
From deepest ruts of blind alleys
Quicken

Beauty
free from above
embedded in our heart-
His loving-kindness...

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So dark,
Shadows creeping,
The moonlight drifts away,
Stars flicker dim against the sky,
Silence....

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