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Post by Sara on Feb 27, 2009 16:00:19 GMT -5
Write a cinquain on any subject.
A cinquain is a short, usually unrhymed poem consisting of twenty-two syllables of 2, 4, 6, 8, 2, in five lines.
Another form which is sometimes used by school teachers to teach grammar, is:
Line 1: Noun
Line 2: Description of Noun
Line 3: Action
Line 4: Feeling or Effect
Line 5: Synonym of the initial noun.
Here is an example:
angels
kind beyond words
they protect and forgive
and make feelings of blissfulness
cherubim
Copyright © 2003 Erin Holbrook
here is a link to cinquain poems:
www.amaze-cinquain.com/Issue_16_6-no-2/table-of-contents.htm
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Post by Sara on Feb 27, 2009 16:05:15 GMT -5
I will post mine later, I am off to dinner and a movie with Billy and the kids, have a great weekend everyone!
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Post by bridge on Feb 27, 2009 16:13:17 GMT -5
Hi Sara, I like these type of poems, I have never written one, but I will give it a try. Will work on it and post it over the weekend. Have fun at the movies and dinner with the family!
Thanks for the prompt!
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Post by Lisa Arnold on Feb 27, 2009 17:00:45 GMT -5
I love these! Thanks so much for the prompt Sara and have fun with the family and you have a great weekend too!!
here's one of my older ones, I will try to write a new one and post it soon...
demons
descend upon
hollow souls harboring
forgotten sins committed long
ago[/size][/b]
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Post by percy on Feb 27, 2009 17:12:46 GMT -5
I never heard of these, good prompt Sara well-done Lisa! I look forward to  your new one, have a great weekend! |
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Post by sunny on Feb 27, 2009 18:04:31 GMT -5
I also never do this before... but I will try one after dinner too. Thank you for posting.
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Post by Brian on Feb 27, 2009 20:06:09 GMT -5
I love these! Thanks so much for the prompt Sara and have fun with the family and you have a great weekend too!! here's one of my older ones, I will try to write a new one and post it soon...
demons
descend upon
hollow souls harboring
forgotten sins committed long
ago[/size][/b] [/quote] I remember this from your site, great to read it again, thanks for sharing it here at Echoes  you and Sara have a great weekend  |
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Post by sunny on Feb 27, 2009 23:28:39 GMT -5
my heart
filled with Spring songs
singing inside days nights
songs of beauty, love and kindness
music
tender
soft like feathers
warp your heart very warm
no matter rain or shine or storms
feeling
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Post by bridge on Feb 28, 2009 4:00:52 GMT -5
Hi Sunny, I like yours but they are cinquains because your syllable count is off, a cinquain is 2, 4, 6, 8, 2, and yours are 1, 3 ,5 ,8, 3 and 3 ,4, 6, 10, 1...
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Post by bridge on Feb 28, 2009 4:03:22 GMT -5
I love these! Thanks so much for the prompt Sara and have fun with the family and you have a great weekend too!! here's one of my older ones, I will try to write a new one and post it soon...
demons
descend upon
hollow souls harboring
forgotten sins committed long
ago[/size][/b] [/quote] great job, Lisa  this happens to be so true, thanks for sharing |
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Post by Lisa Arnold on Feb 28, 2009 4:19:12 GMT -5
thanks so much Brian, Percy and bridge  I really appreciate the read and kind words here is a new one by me, I seem to be in a dark mood these days: a child
taken away
by a gunman’s bullet
young life lost before it ever
began[/color][/size] |
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Post by Cherrie on Feb 28, 2009 7:08:36 GMT -5
sara and bridge I look forward to yours. Sara I hope you had a great time with the family! Lisa, your cinquains are spot on, good job as always! Sunny thanks for posting! |
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Post by sunny on Feb 28, 2009 7:29:21 GMT -5
sara and bridge I look forward to yours. Sara I hope you had a great time with the family! Lisa, your cinquains are spot on, good job as always! Sunny thanks for posting! Thank you for your kind words too! |
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Post by Sara on Feb 28, 2009 7:30:31 GMT -5
great cinquians, Lisa!  Bridge I'll be on the lookout for yours!  Sunny, good poems but as bridge pointed out they are not cinquains, check your syllablel count and they will be fine Here goes mine: beauty
does not befall
those who have unkind souls
it graces those who exhibit
kindness |
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Post by sunny on Feb 28, 2009 7:35:33 GMT -5
 candles
burning slowly
flickering lights shimmer
lighting up the room and my eyes
brighten |
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your new one, have a great weekend!
and 
all
time for me 
echoes, hope you all are doing well 
