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Quintains Poems - Poems about Quintains

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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Categories: quintains, 11th grade, father, pain,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 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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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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Categories: quintains, football, games,
Form: Quintain (English)
Premium Member 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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Categories: quintains, fantasy, fear,
Form: Other
Premium Member 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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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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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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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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Categories: quintains, sleep,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member 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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Categories: quintains, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 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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Categories: quintains, analogy, emotions, literature, metaphor,
Form: Other
Premium Member 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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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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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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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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Categories: quintains, poems, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 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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Categories: quintains, success, words,
Form: Quintain (English)

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