Deborah P Kolodji moderates the Southern California Haiku Study Group, which meets monthly in Pasadena, CA at the Pacific Asia Museum. A former president of the Science Fiction Poetry Association, she is the California Regional Coordinator of the Haiku Society of America. She has published over 800 haiku.
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In Maine we are alive with ochre seagrass . . .when I swim, I repeat . . . the sea weed is my friend, the sea weed is my friend to convince myself that swimming thru it is okay.
What is a cinquain?
Judith, a cinquain is a 5 line poem form. The pattern, like a haiku, is based on syllables per line. The breakdown of syllables is 2, 4, 6, 8, 2. Unlike haiku, it is not necessarily about nature, though it can be. The last line, 2 syllables, usually is a bit of a surprise- hence its connection to writers of haiku. Anything else I’ve missed people?
OOh, like the folded ochre star”” image!”
st john’s bay
single queen conch …
in search of sea grass leaves
Hi Deborah, as usual your haiku is fantastic.
sea
newborn fish sticks to
the seaweeds
In Maine we are alive with ochre seagrass . . .when I swim, I repeat . . . the sea weed is my friend, the sea weed is my friend to convince myself that swimming thru it is okay.
What is a cinquain?
Judith, a cinquain is a 5 line poem form. The pattern, like a haiku, is based on syllables per line. The breakdown of syllables is 2, 4, 6, 8, 2. Unlike haiku, it is not necessarily about nature, though it can be. The last line, 2 syllables, usually is a bit of a surprise- hence its connection to writers of haiku. Anything else I’ve missed people?
Thanks, Anne, I’d never heard the term before.
on wood’s peaks
the moon
the candle blaze.
a haiku has 5 sylables then 7 sylables den 5 ! so its summat like count on shooting stars
when the last of summer fades
glimmering wishes
see !
deb, from 2005 til now, trust all is well; and yet there’s hope in the stars, never failing, even on cloudy nights, appearing faithfully once more…
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twilight
silent winking fireflies catch me—
wishing upon every star