For the paint-chip poetry prompt this week, we are given the challenge of writing a “chance cinquain,” using the words on the paint chips in order in five-line stanzas. I just realized I didn’t use them in order. Oh, well. I am also sharing with JusJoJan.
Drinking
Matcha green tea,
Searching for zen-like peace:
In a temple close to Tokyo
Thinking
I’ll find
At journey’s end
The Garden of Eden,
If I can travel long enough
Distance —
I try
Before the rain,
Turning withered leaves new,
But sometimes it requires sadly
A storm:
Thunder
Roars dragon-like
As somber sky turns black —
Tie me to ship’s mast to escape
Sirens —
We sail,
Tea calming me:
Whirlpools of memory,
In this world halfway, and halfway
In that.
Nice job. Five is a perfectly respectable number of stanzas. You wrote some great cinquains, working the phrases in organically.
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A great write!
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good one. I haven’t done one yet since it seems so intimidating
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I like the way you took us on a journey and how you used half and half.
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here again
dry
white
few snow
so i cry
and why not?!!!
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