Cinquain: April 10-17, 2025
Continuing with National Poetry Month, this week’s assignment is to write a cinquain poem about April or springtime. A cinquain is a five-line poem consisting of twenty-two syllables: two in the first line, then four, then six, then eight, and then two syllables again in the last line.
The Submissions:
by Journal Kurtz
Spring thaws
soften the ground
and push blooms surfaceward
to bud anew at the tip of
my heart.
—-
I have
forgotten so
much more than I have known:
lilac buds lick the fickle air,
winter ends.
by Captain Quillard
Rebirth
and renewal
spoken tentatively,
manifest with hyacinth breath
There’s hope
by Anonymous Frau Redux
April
Sneezy breezy
Lots of rain on the plain
Hoppy baby or in store foiled
Bunnies
—-
Wonder
Chicken or egg
First? Just ask yourself why
Easter bunny uses glitter
Foul fowl
—-
“Plan it”
Sow seed, grow tree
Community service
We reduce, reuse, recycle
Earth Day
Next Week’s Assignment:
Poetry month continues. This week, write at least three poems as epitaphs for people’s tombstones, starting each with “Here lies ___”
For “inspiration,” here’s one I wrote for a class in middle school:
Here lies Walter Cronkite,
the man that you saw every night.
A bullet through his heart went whiz.
He’s dead…
"And that’s the way it is."