Reflective Cinquains (CTG)
A cinquain is a set form of five lines with the following number of syllables: 2, 4, 6, 8, 2. Wild Poetry Forum has a community participation area that features a "Cinquain Train" in which poets post a cinquain with a two-syllable beginning line that matches the two-syllable ending line that the previous poet posted. We have now written more than 12,000 such cinquains. Gathered under the title "Reflective Cinquains" are a few recent ones I wrote.
Reflective Cinquains
Gentleness:
what is needed
at this season of year.
Let's stuff commercialism up the
chimney.
People
times seven thou':
Liverpudlians run
in their charity Santa dash:
Bravo.
Fine wine:
tonight, Christmas
Eve, just to be with you.
Savor it: precious, once in a
lifetime.
Wholly,
take the holy
wafer on your tongue, whole,
-- not halfway -- accept it with all
your soul.
Begun:
a young lifetime.
Ended: another life.
New generations! But what do
they learn?
Our globe:
dangerous world!
Home of fighting mankind,
we plot to blow each other up!
Jesus!
Monster's
ball! But not your
problem at all. Just how
others live: tyranny resides
next door.
Setting
for a judgement:
let the guilty man off?
He's here for the stretch! Reprieve him?
No fear.
For some,
the firing squad,
some the golden handshake.
Why is life always so unfair
for some?
Freedom,
at such high price?
Time to rethink options.
To throw away lives and futures,
for what?
Share it:
share your poems
if you can't share your love,
or better yet, best of two worlds,
share both.
Christopher T. George
