Escape (Cinquain)

by Mr. Darcy   Jun 20, 2015


Life falls
Like a cold stone
Discarded, unwanted
Away from nature's mountain peak
Death lands

M. Moran
20.6.15

Cinquain poems came from Adelaide Crapsy in 1911, who developed her own poetic system, which she called cinquain.

These were short unrhymed poems consisting of twenty-two syllables. They were distributed into 2, 4, 6, 8, 2 syllables in five lines.
This type of poetry was related to Japanese literary styles.

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  • 9 years ago

    by Ben Pickard

    This is excellently crafted and again, considering how short the poem is, captivating. It almost seems to build to a suspended crescendo and then..........."death lands". A wonderfully abrupt and fitting end, as it were!