Thread: cinquain

CINQUAIN

The traditional cinquain is based on a syllable count, there's a few different ways to write them, so for ease of playing the game of cinquain, let's play ...

line 1 - 2 syllables
line 2 - 4 syllables
line 3 - 6 syllables
line 4 - 8 syllables
line 5 - 2 syllables

the next person uses the last line to begin again
they can be as simple or as complex
as you wish to make them
here's an example

2. home run
4. driving with force
6. last base is looking good
8. screaming & chanting the crowd cries
2. for more

the next person starts with 'for more' and so forth and so forth

for more
never enough
hungry & ferocious
insatiable appetite kills
the mood

the mood
strikes me as strange
when I should feel happy
I only feel disconnected
from them

from them
all was taken
leaving nothing behind
broken souls, left under duress
starving

starving
pit-bulls is not
a good idea as
they can get angry enough to
bite you

bite you
on the bottom
teeth as sharp as razors
quickly, run and hide before eye
catch you

catch you
before you can
escape the warm oven
gingerbread man is not so fast
today

today
was rather hot
in the garden sweating
wiping brow between shoveling
horse shit

horse sh*t
thats what love is
love was made to hurt us
to break our hearts and make us scream
then cry

then cry
crocodile tears
pretending you are sad
with salty wet streaks, streaming down
your face

your face
is the skin of
everything that I touch
I hide beneath my memories
of you

of you
memories haunt
recesses of my mind
a tangled web of emotions
linger

linger
don't want to leave
but the door is closing
and I lost the key years ago
somewhere

somewhere
there is sunshine
and some where there is rain
some where there is morning town, miles
away


edit: appropriated Judith Durham lyric.

That's plagiarism.
Judith wouldn't approve.


hmph