National Poetry Month

(A Spring Poem)

In honor of national poetry month I thought I'd share some poetry with you.

First, I read somewhere about a challenge to write a cinquain - a form of poetry - and create art to go with it. Um, yeah. I wrote the poem but didn't make the art. A cinquain is, in this case, a "didactic cinquain." Described on Wikipedia thusly:



"The proscriptions of this type of cinquain refer to word count, not syllables and stresses. Ordinarily:


the first line is a one-word title, the subject of the poem;
the second line is a pair of adjectives describing that title;
the third line is a three word phrase that gives more information about the subject;
the fourth line consists of four words describing feelings related to that subject;
and the fifth line is single word synonym or other reference for the subject from line one."



I wrote this almost two years ago and if I had to write it again, it would be exactly the same.

Daughter.

Loving adventure.

Beautiful, sweet, funny.

Dancing through my life.

Precious.

This next poem I wrote about a year and a half ago. I was watching Rexy do something (what???) and she got a priceless look on her face - that was gone a second later. I literally reached for my journal in that moment, and wrote this:

If My Eyes Were a Camera

If my eyes were a camera

I would take a picture of you

every minute

of every day.

So I could savor

the sight of you

and the light of you

in future times.

And remember

how you look

right

now.

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