Sleep 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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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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Night song
Pulls my heartstrings
Luna, stars SYMPHONY
Lullabying the world to sleep
Sweet dreams


18th May 2023

Contest: Song of my heart
Sponsor: JCB Brul...

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Long days
Of August sun
Where nature blinks and shrinks
The dying grass,yellowed in sleep-
Held fast
as
Oat grass
Tinted old gold
Shimmers on tall green stems;
On a clear warm light of...

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Burnout
Drained Energy
Dark insomnia nights
Lonely longing for Catharsis 
Timeout...

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Long days
Of August sun
Where nature blinks and shrinks
The dying grass,yellowed in sleep-
Held fast
as
Oat grass
Tinted old gold
Shimmers on tall green stems;
On a clear warm light of evening sun-
Back-lit
the
Brimstone
Awakens,then
From each flower hovers
On the drying wind of the breeze-
Sun-lit.

NOTE:quintile(LINKED  sequence American cinquains)...

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Long days
Of August sun
Where nature blinks and shrinks
The dying grass,yellowed in sleep-
Held fast

NOTE:AMERICAN CINQUAIN (an imagist stressed version)WAS DEVISED BY ADELAIDE CRAPSEY (William Soutar Epigrams...

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Let my

grief vanish like

dew from dark violets

into the sun, leaving only

velvet....

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Get up
at four am, clean 
house, take bath pray to God. 
Have dinner before sunset, sleep
early

This is
what  is stated 
in ancient scriptures and
this is...

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Daniel                        ...

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Hush now…
He fixes bed…
Hums rest-filled lullaby…
My special child brings me to sleep*
He snores.

*Psalm 4:8 I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for...

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Stay warm
                       ...

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AMERICAN CINQUAINS
Poems
in shapely form,
displaying syllables
or stresses in a versatile
refrain.
Created. by both Adelaide Crapsey & William Soutar

LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT-a quintile(LINKED cinquains)
We had
met and conversed,
a rapport...

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Sleep tight
                 Old man of dreams
   ...

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