Thursday, July 15, 2010

cinquains

I wrote this cinquain for my class.

birthday

hooray!
streamers, balloons
celebrate a new year
a new age, one more step closer
to death.

sar 2010


I like this one more.

It seems
That barbed comments
Baited with some small joke
Hook themselves well into the soul
And rip

Sue Marsden


Have a go. 2 syllables, 4 syllables, 6 syllables, 8 syllables and 2 syllables again.

2 comments:

  1. SIMONE!!!! please tell me you didn't show your class the birthday cinquain!!!!! it rips all the joy out of birthdays. Think we need to TALK.

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  2. Of course I showed it to them! Didn't even consider the kill-joy factor! A poem without some shock value is ... well... boring. But here's another version for you:

    hooray!
    streamers, balloons
    celebrate a new year
    a new age, lots of lovely bright
    candles.

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