Okay! We’re finishing up the first full month of 2021 on a great note: with coffee and cinquain. What better combination is there?
(Well …. maybe coffee and chocolate … but we’ll do that again later.)
Three-Day Coffee Cinquain Challenge — Day 3
Cinquain
Three-Day Coffee Cinquain Challenge — Day 2
I admit that for this Day 2 cinquain I did not use the actual word coffee. But I stand by the poem as indicative of the allure and satisfaction that only coffee can bring. 🙂
Ready.
How much longer?
Your fragrance titillates.
We’re trembling in our saucers now.
Hurry!
Three-Day Coffee Cinquain Challenge — Day 1
I decided it’s time I wrote about coffee again, and I like to challenge myself to write about a common topic in an uncommon way. So I’ve decided to close out January with a 3-day challenge to myself to write a brand new coffee cinquain for the last 3 days of the month. And if any of my viewers would like to join the challenge, you are very welcome to do so. Just write your own coffee cinquain on your own site and hop over here and put the link to it in the Comment Window below. If you’re not familiar with cinquain, you can find an explanation on my poetry site at this link: Ahyoka/Cinquain.
So let’s get started with Day 1’s poem.
My day
Is starting right:
My coffee’s black and hot,
My cup entwined in happy leaves.
Content.
Birthday Cinquain
Birthdays:
Mine’s coming up.
But I’m not getting old.
Just like good wine, I’m at my best
When aged.
New Year Cinquain
Last year
Was not so good.
But changing dates won’t help.
To make this new year better, we
Must pray.
Autumn Cinquain Duo
AUTUMN PERFUME
Bonfire:
Smoke drifting by,
Fragrant with scent of leaves
Still crisp and sweet from frost’s kiss.
It’s fall.
AUTUMN SONG
Crunch, crunch.
I love the sound.
My fav’rite time of year.
My walks are filled with song as leaves
Crunch, crunch.
There Is A Cure
The truth of Jesus Christ’s complete redemption can be told in any form. In this post I’ve set God’s truth into Cinquain — one of my favorite poetic forms.
Virus:
To lots of folks
It is a scary word.
But there’s a name that can kill it:
Jesus!
Disease
By any name.
Must bow to Jesus’ name.
His sacrifice redeemed us from
Disease.
Have faith.
Get in His Word:
He says it’s medicine
For every ailment we can face.
Trust Him.
(Scripture References: Acts 3:16, Philippians 2:9-10, Galatians 3:13-14, Proverbs 4:20-22, and Psalm 107:17-20)
Rain Poems
It’s been raining here for two whole days, so I thought it was only fitting that I write about rain. Since I’m in a poetic mood, I decided I’d give myself a little workout and do one haiku, one cinquain, and one simple iambic pentameter verse about that subject.
HAIKU
Everything is gray.
Rain hanging like a curtain.
No sun peeping in.
CINQUAIN
Raining!
Again today!
I just have to complain:
All is gray and wet and dreary!
Boring!
IAMBIC PENTAMETER VERSE
Another boring day of endless rain.
We don’t need this much water every day.
Sunshine is now a fading memory.
The birds won’t even come out now to play.
I know some tribes have dances that they do
To bring the rain when grounds are parched and bare.
I wonder if there is another dance
To end the rain and turn the weather fair.
Cinquain: Just Do It
Written in response to a couple friends of mine who have said for almost a year that they’ve thought about trying to write cinquain, but they won’t even make a start. They find it fascinating, but seem to be afraid of it. They have this false idea that because they need to count syllables, they will have trouble. If they’d just try, they’d be surprised and delighted with the results — and hooked on it– like I am. 🙂
Dear friend,
Tell me again
Why you don’t try cinquain.
You think it’s difficult to write?
It’s not.
You say
You are afraid
That you can’t get it right.
Syllable count seems difficult.
It’s not.
Just try,
And you will find
That it’s much easier
Than you have even dared to think.
DO IT!
photo courtesy of LunarSeaArt @ pixabay.com
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Stepping Through The Door — Cinquain
I wrote this piece for my poetry site, but decided I’d share it here as well.
Portals
Wait before me.
I stand before closed doors
But do not let that hinder me:
“Open!”
Behold,
The doors obeyed.
And now I stand in awe.
I see what possibilities
Await.
So now
I must decide:
Will I cross the threshold?
Will I accept new challenges?
I will!
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Three Autumn Cinquain: I’m So Ready
I’m tired
Of summer heat.
I say this ev’ry year:
Fall is the only perfect time
Of year.
Autumn
Is close now.
I hear the crickets sing.
And leaves are falling one by one.
Can’t wait.
Seasons
Come and go.
And I appreciate
All of them, but none so much as
Autumn.
Thanks so much to my wonderful friend, photographer Terry Valley, for this amazing Autumn picture.
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Two Cinquain Just For Fun
I haven’t written any cinquain in several months. That’s not like me at all, so I decided I’d remedy that situation today and write two.
Faulty Garden
Zenias
I planted some,
And nice green stems came up.
But months have passed and still no blooms.
What’s wrong???
Closing In On Christmas
August
Has come so fast.
This year is flying by.
But I don’t mind, for Christmas then
Is close.
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The Return — Cinquain
HEY, THERE.
ARE YOU READY?
AM I READY FOR WHAT?
READY FOR THE RETURN OF JESUS —
SOON NOW.
UH … WELL …
I’M NOT QUITE SURE.
WHAT DO I NEED TO DO?
JUST GIVE YOUR HEART. MAKE HIM YOUR LORD.
THAT’S ALL.
Meeting the Day Where It Begins
Awake!
Here comes the sun.
I’m casting off right now
To meet the day where it begins.
Ahoy!
My latest watercolor experiment
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Noel Cinquain – Day 7
Noel.
Light up the tree.
Hang strands of brilliant glow.
Let your light shine to tell the world
Noel!
This post completes the’ Seven Days of Noel Cinquain.’ Hope you’ve enjoyed them.
photo courtesy of Geralt @ pixabay.com
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