Michael Edwards

A CINQUAIN COLLECTION

 

 

 

A CINQUAIN COLLECTION

 

 

Airless

Windows firm shut

Abandoned, neglected

Floating dust accumulating

Settling.

 

 

Lost hope

Stately fanes stood

Melting crowns fell on fire

Forgotten idols abandoned

World ends.

 

 

Hurt felt

sleep gives escape

in glowing tinted dreams

the discomposed demeanour lost

pain fades

 

 

 

 

 

A Cinquain is a short, usually unrhymed poem consisting of

twenty-two syllables distributed as 2, 4, 6, 8, 2, in five lines.

 It was developed by the Imagist poet, Adelaide Crapsey.