A Cinquain poem called Expectations

Introduction

We thought we would start writing and exploring poetry forms every week. Writing poetry and song lyrics an dplaying with words is always something we have liked doing so we thought why not do some more! So two of us are writing poems every week and we will see how it goes!

Poetry form

This week we are looking at the Cinquain

This is the definition:

Cinquain

This is also known as a quintain or quintet, and as its names suggest, it has five lines. It can be an entire short poem or a stanza in a longer work. It was developed into the “American Cinquain” in the early 20th century by poet Adelaide Crapsey, who was inspired by the Japanese tanka poem. Her revised version is unrhymed and has a set number of syllables per line: 2, 4, 6, 8, 2. Here’s an example by Crapsey, November Night:

Listen…
With faint dry sound,
Like steps of passing ghosts,
The leaves, frost-crisp’d, break from the trees
And fall.

Title: Expectations 1

Too much
Too much for me
A heavy weight of hope
Stuck in fear of doing more
Too much

Title: Expectations 2

Could be
The best thing yet
Hottest of the year
Cant wait for it to come to me,
Waiting.....

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