Poetry

Cinquains

Cinquains are a five line poems that obey the following rules:

Moon
luminous, pale
sighing, hovering, watching
Loving all her children
Fair maiden

In the preceding poem I compared the moon to a 'fair maiden.'

First line is the subject, the second is two adjectives, the third, three verbs; the fourth, a related 4 word sentence, and the last, a synonym for the subject.

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