{"id":87850,"date":"2012-05-01T00:17:18","date_gmt":"2012-05-01T04:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/87850\/cpc-poetry-challenge-preview-friday-fling-celebrates-hispanic-culture\/"},"modified":"2012-05-01T00:17:18","modified_gmt":"2012-05-01T04:17:18","slug":"cpc-poetry-challenge-preview-friday-fling-celebrates-hispanic-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/87850\/cpc-poetry-challenge-preview-friday-fling-celebrates-hispanic-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"CPC POETRY CHALLENGE PREVIEW: The Friday Fling Celebrates Hispanic Culture!"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a Special preview for the CPC Friday Fling Poetry challenge. \u00a0Poems should be posted on the CPC blog after the challenge opens Thursday evening at 9 PM EDT. <\/em><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

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Friday Fling #179 May 4th 2012<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Saturday is Cinco de Mayo, an important Mexican holiday. So we thought this would be a good time to <\/font>celebrate Hispanic culture in general about how it affects our lives. <\/font><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

“Cinco” is Spanish for five. The Friggin’ Fabulously Fun Friday Fling is also called 5F. So let’s go all the way with five and <\/font>write a five line poem, a Cinquain!<\/font><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

ShadowPoetry.com recently revised its listing for Cinquains and included this useful essay:<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Cinquain<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

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.<\/font><\/p>\n

(For further information, please scroll down for an article on Cinquain from the SP Quill
\nQuarterly Magazine written by Deborah P Kolodji.)<\/font><\/p>\n

Another form, sometimes used by school teachers to teach grammar, is as follows:<\/font><\/p>\n

Line 1: Noun
\nLine 2: Description of Noun
\nLine 3: Action
\nLine 4: Feeling or Effect
\nLine 5: Synonym of the initial noun.<\/font><\/p>\n

angels
\nkind beyond words
\nthey protect and forgive
\nand make feelings of blissfulness
\ncherubim<\/font><\/p>\n

Copyright \u00a9 2003 Erin Holbrook<\/font><\/p>\n

Knowing What Counts: The Cinquain<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

By Deborah P Kolodji<\/font><\/p>\n

On October 8, 1914, a thirty-six year old woman died of chronic pulmonary tuberculosis in Rochester, New York. One year later, Manas Press published her first (and only) book of poetry, Verse. This poet\u2019s name was Adelaide Crapsey, the inventor of the American Cinquain.<\/font><\/p>\n

Crapsey was born in 1878, the third child of an Episcopal clergyman. She graduated from Vassar College, returning to her high school boarding school, Kemper Hall, to teach literature and history. A few years later, while teaching a course entitled, \u201cPoetics: A Critical Study of Verse Forms\u201d at Smith College, she began a study of metrics which led to her invention of the cinquain as we know it.<\/font><\/p>\n

In its simplest dictionary definition, a cinquain is a poem of five lines. Crapsey\u2019s cinquain was more specific, a poem of five lines with a specific syllable count of 2-4-6-8-2, usually iambic. <\/font><\/p>\n

The ideal cinquain for Crapsey was one that worked up to a turn or climax, and then fell back. Similar to the \u201ctwist\u201d that often occurs in the final couplet of a sonnet, a cinquain\u2019s \u201cturn\u201d usually occurs during the final, shorter fifth line or immediately before it. Thus, the momentum of a cinquain grows with each subsequent line as another two syllables, usually an ambic foot, is added bringing the poem to a climax at the fourth line, falling back to a two syllable \u201cpunch line\u201d.<\/font><\/p>\n

Part of the imagist movement in the early twentieth century, Crapsey wrote her cinquains in precise, natural language with minimal use of adjectives. Although influenced by her study of Asian poetry forms and her translations of Japanese haiku, she titled her cinquains and was not opposed to the use of literary devices such as alliteration and assonance. <\/font><\/p>\n

At some point in the mid-twentieth century, elementary school teachers started using a modified version of the cinquain as a grammar lesson. Instead of syllables, these poems emphasized grammar forms as the criteria for each line. Although useful as a teaching tool, these \u201cdidactic\u201d cinquains were never widely published. Recently, there has been a renaissance of cinquain poetry on the internet, of the syllable-patterned form that Crapsey developed. Modern cinquain writers have been refining the form as they experiment, sometimes using resonance between the first and last lines to bring the poem full circle. Many poets writing today\u2019s cinquains draw from their experiences with haiku, effectively using juxtaposition to divide the poem into two halves, which compliment each other with layered meanings.<\/font><\/p>\n

Cinquain poets have also been experimenting with cinquain variations \u2013 cinquain sequences (polystanzaic poems made up of cinquain stanzas), crown cinquains (a five stanza cinquain sequence), reverse cinquains (a cinquain with a reverse syllable pattern of 2-8-6-4-2), mirror cinquains (a two stanza cinquain sequence of the pattern 2-4-6-8-2 2-8-6-4-2), and cinquain butterflies (a \u201cmerged mirror cinquain\u201d where the two stanzas of a mirror cinquain are merged together, one of the middle 2 syllable lines is dropped, resulting in one nine line stanza of the form 2-4-6-8-2-8-6-4-2). Please note that a cinquain butterfly is not a \u201ccinquain\u201d because it doesn\u2019t have five lines, but it is a \u201cbutterfly\u201d made up of two cinquains that were merged together into one poem.<\/font><\/p>\n

Now it is the reader\u2019s turn to experiment. After some practice, the rhythm of a cinquain will begin to feel natural. It is important not to force a poem into the cinquain form but to allow the form and the discipline of its syllable count to grow the poem. Since there are only twenty-two syllables to work with, it\u2019s good practice to avoid the use of unnecessary words and make each syllable count. However, be forewarned \u2013 writing cinquains can be addicting! <\/font><\/p>\n

Printed in the SP Quill Quarterly Magazine, Spring 2005, Volume 6. All Rights Reserved. <\/font><\/p>\n

Turquoise Thoughts<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Hammered
\nsilver bracelet,
\ndesert sky turquoise stone –
\ncity-bound but feels sagebrush in
\nher soul.<\/font><\/p>\n

Copyright \u00a9 2005 Deborah P Kolodji<\/font><\/p>\n

This week the Friday Fling writes Cinquains about Cinco and Hispanic Culture!<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Be sure to save time to read and comment in synch with your fellow Pals’ Cinquainish celebrations!<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

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