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Quintains Poems - Poems about Quintains
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Fire Up the Dragon
...three quintains Husband made an announcement yesterday at five. "I'm NOT going to Disney next week on Spring Break. Back problems do not mix with that long twelve-hour drive, walking theme park......
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Reason A. Poteet
Categories:
quintains,
11th grade, father, pain,
Form:
Rhyme
A Plea For Awesome Phrase
...On a shattered pebble beach my kernel, becomes this dervish dancing to the maniacal symbol rash tune, of inchoate monsoon grass beat timpani, that’s dimly frowned on by sonic virtuoso, but terms ......
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Howard Kerr
Categories:
quintains,
care, character, color, creation,
Form:
Free verse
From a game of kicks to kickbacks
...Football, for long a game of kicks, To viewers oft of bare fists, bricks, At times a show of gun, At others filled with fun, But now more of kickbacks it reeks. It’s time FIFA gets y......
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Aniruddha Pathak
Categories:
quintains,
football, games,
Form:
Quintain (English)
Captivated
...The call sent shivers up my spine and raised the hairs upon my neck ~ frozen, pondered on what the heck its owner liked to dine. A twig shouted its betrayal, bending, snapping under pressure......
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Jeff Kyser
Categories:
quintains,
fantasy, fear,
Form:
Other
Two Syllables Went Missing
..."TWO SYLLABLES WENT MISSING TODAY" Last seen with commas, running away. The poet seems distressed and frantic said it might be a Clerihew's antic. Or wait, he cried, could be even worse-- hidi......
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Ann Peck
Categories:
quintains,
anxiety, humor, imagination, loss,
Form:
Rhyme
Quintains For Claude Raines
...I’ve never been to Sicily, and yet it’s always felt a part of me. Who knows? Another life, another alphabet? Alongside Archimedes, jotting prose in Agrigentum I, with each vignette, imbibing ......
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Michael Coy
Categories:
quintains,
poetry,
Form:
Quintain (Sicilian)
Regret
... Decisions sometime results in failure; we start analyzing our behavior. Many times it is really painful. Regret comes as natural emotion can't decide what next, completely broken. ......
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Pratap Roy
Categories:
quintains,
emotions,
Form:
Sonnet
Sleep Deprivation
... Failing to get enough sleep or getting poor-quality sleep are resulting to health hazard; it is known fact, it makes us unfit to discharge daily acts with cheer. It's voluntary le......
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Pratap Roy
Categories:
quintains,
sleep,
Form:
Sonnet
Poetrysoup Appreciation
...Thank you to the PoetrySoup community, for being really good friends to me... Thank you for for comments and collaborations, And for posting awesome poems for all to read! Ya'know, every word has......
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Robert James Liguori
Categories:
quintains,
appreciation,
Form:
Rhyme
What Are Words - a Florilegium Poem
...What are words other than coffin nails be? Who does it belong to when it rails me? An empty vessel at best that bails thee. Lend me your ear and draw your heart near; my words might seer, but h......
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Suzette Richards
Categories:
quintains,
analogy, emotions, literature, metaphor,
Form:
Other
Brocken Spectre - a Florilegium Poem
...The root word for religion is not kind – Latin verb that means to tie or to bind – as it tends to play tricks on anyone’s mind. For some, the edicts lash; they merc......
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Suzette Richards
Categories:
quintains,
introspection, poetry, religion,
Form:
Other
Sweet Rose of Virtue: William Dunbar Translation
...Sweet Rose of Virtue by William Dunbar (c. 1460-1530) loose translation/modernization/interpretation by Michael R. Burch after William Dunbar Sweet rose of virtue and of gentleness, delightf......
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Michael Burch
Categories:
quintains,
character, desire, devotion, flower,
Form:
Sonnet
A Poetic Call
...Determined to read and plant the seed fast to emulate poets of the present and past. I staked the library display Whitman, Kilmer, Frost, unnamed arrays including Sandberg and St. Vincent Mi......
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DM Babbit
Categories:
quintains,
poetry, poets, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Journey Into Poetry
...In youth, I wrote many poems of rhyme, quatrains flowing freely on the lines. Here and there a couplet would unwind and on occasion quintains undefined. As time progressed, I tried my hand at......
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DM Babbit
Categories:
quintains,
poems, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Secret of Rhyming
...A rhyming scheme defines my style Where magic drips on quill’s potion, If quintains and sonnets beguile Hands pray for meter’s salvation, This secret I keep, to win the throne! Juli-Michelle's Rhy......
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Nette Onclaud
Categories:
quintains,
success, words,
Form:
Quintain (English)
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