CPC POETRY CHALLENGE PREVIEW: The Friday Fling Celebrates Veterans!
This is a Special preview for the CPC Friday Fling poetry challenge. Poems should be posted there when the challenge begins Thursday evening at 9 PM EST.
Friday Fling #154 November 11th 2011
Friday November 11th is Veterans’ Day, a day to remember and show our appreciation for the soldiers who have served. It was established after World War I on Armistace Day, when that war, one of the worst in history, ended in 1918.
We thought the Cinquain would be a good format to express the meaning of Veterans’ Day. Recall that it is a poem of five (“cinq” in French) lines and progressively larger number of syllables until the last line returns to two, thus: (from shadowpoetry.com)
Cinquain is a short, usually unrhymed poem consisting of twenty-two syllables distributed as 2, 4, 6, 8, 2, in five lines. It was developed by the Imagist poet, Adelaide Crapsey. Here’s an example:
Turquoise Thoughts
Hammered
silver bracelet,
desert sky turquoise stone –
city-bound but feels sagebrush in
her soul.
Copyright © 2005 Deborah P Kolodji
Another variation, sometimes used by school teachers to teach grammar, is as follows:
Line 1: Noun
Line 2: Description of Noun
Line 3: Action
Line 4: Feeling or Effect
Line 5: Synonym of the initial noun.
Example:
angels
kind beyond words
they protect and forgive
and make feelings of blissfulness
cherubim
Copyright © 2003 Erin Holbrook
This week the CPC Friday Fling remembers America’s veterans in Cinquains!
Be sure to save time to read and comment respectfully on your fellow Pals’ memorials. Then enjoy a weekend of American freedom!
Fickle Finger of Fate Award for November 4th
Congratulations Rebel!
Thanks for the award Bob! Happy you and Michelle liked the poem 😀 :groovy: