tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-281668162009-02-21T00:19:38.676-08:00A sequenced American Cinquain poetic image formichthyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02166493604739619406noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28166816.post-1147728552637967292006-05-15T14:26:00.000-07:002008-08-23T00:02:52.379-07:00<a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_9A9gX5wXrV4/SJAc58JqgPI/AAAAAAAAAC8/0wR5mOypQ7k/s1600-h/quintile.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5228710949101928690" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_9A9gX5wXrV4/SJAc58JqgPI/AAAAAAAAAC8/0wR5mOypQ7k/s320/quintile.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><div><strong>Quintiles</strong> are multiple American cinquains on a common theme<br />and are linked in sequence to form a longer poem.<br /><br />Below are some of my examples of this form( <strong>copyright Brian Strand England</strong>),they may be used for educational purposes provided this site is acknowledged and an advice of use is emailed to <a href="mailto:strandbg@hotmail.com">mailto:strandbg@hotmail.com</a> Contact this email for a list/prices of my chapbooks series of short poetic form<br /><br /><strong>FOOD CHAIN</strong><br /><br />Thermals<br />Drift,rising with<br />Brown buzzard ground circling<br />Silhouette shadowed before<br />Slaying<br /><em>as</em><br />Darkness<br />Descending slow<br />Breaking out of the silence<br />Of the winter's night,a single<br />Owl screech<br /><em>of</em><br />Hunger<br />Which haunts each dark<br />Hour,as coldness kills,thus<br />Does Nature's chain perpetuate<br />At night.<br /><br /><strong>RESERVOIR</strong><br /><br />Poplars,<br />Silhouetted<br />Against the rising moon;<br />Filled full of roosting cormorants,<br />Sleeping<br /><em>as long</em><br />Shadows<br />Rippling between<br />Reflections of scudding clouds;<br />Where evanescent images<br />Settle.<br /><br /><strong>PRECIOUS MOMENTS </strong><br /><br />Long days<br />Of August sun<br />Where nature blinks and shrinks<br />The drying grass,yellowed in sleep<br />Held fast.<br /><em>as</em><br />Oat grass<br />Tinted old gold<br />Shimmers on tall green stems;<br />On a clear warm light of evening sun,<br />Back-lit.<br /><em>the</em><br />Brimstone<br />Awakens,then<br />From each flower hovers<br />On the drying wind of the breeze,<br />Sun-lit.<br /><br /><br /><strong>LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT</strong><br />We had<br />Met and conversed<br />A rapport on first sight<br />A chance meeting..to a life-times<br />Delight<br /><em>that</em><br />Summer<br />Evening,silken<br />Long..an encounter of<br />Initiations together<br />Explored<br /><em>as</em> Desire<br />Welled within<br />Words became a promise<br />So sublime,a love now,and for<br />All time<br /><br /><br />copyright Brian Strand England</div><div> </div><div><br /><strong>Other Educational Poetry Blogs of mine are<br /></strong>haiga-ichthys.blogspot.com<br />vignette-ichthys.blogspot.com<br />monoku-ichthys.blogspot.com<br />sequence-fibonacci.blogspot.com<br />ekphrasis-poiema.blogspot.com<br />quintile.blogspot.com<br />quintain.blogspot.com<br />ichthys-couplets.blogspot.com<br />epulaeryu.blogspot.com<br />tetractys-ichthys.blogspot.com<br />englyn.blogspot.com</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28166816-114772855263796729?l=quintile.blogspot.com'/></div>ichthyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02166493604739619406noreply@blogger.com