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LINKED CINQUAIN SEQUENCES
- Thematic, Collaborative, Etc. -
Wind and Rain
Cold wind
and steady rain
added to the pain of
your leaving. Frozen, I stood there
watching.
Cold rain
and steady wind
were warmer than you were.
For weeks you sent no word. You were
so cold.
Steady,
the wind and rain …
not like your fickle heart.
You called at last, but just to say
goodbye.
Raining.
The steady wind
blew lonely through our rooms.
What chilled me was the coldness of
your voice.
Cold wind
and steady rain
are buffeting you now.
I hear your new lover left you
alone.
The wind
and rain gave way
to this calm sunny day.
One who is true is with me now.
Goodbye!
Denis M. Garrison
Celestial Navigation
Velvet
black falls slowly.
Day dies in silent calm.
Then, one by one, stars blossom in
the dark. (DG)
Black glass.
The bay reflects
a mirror of the sky
Our mast light flashes a starry
mirage. (LJC)
Bay waves
surround all sides,
gleam ghost-green. Phosphor trails
ride the rollers. Dark water comes
alive. (DG)
Beneath
uneasy seas
stillness deceives. No light
illuminates deeply hidden
secrets. (LJC)
Rising
out of darkness,
leviathan appears
in alien starlight, blind and
hungry. (DG)
We fear
the mythic sea,
ancient home abandoned
when we crawled ashore, learned to cast
shadows. (LJC)
Oceans
on earth are dwarfed
by the black vastness that
looms overhead: the boundless sea
of night. (DG)
We sail
the solar winds,
fall off the edge of maps,
risk monsters and madness, adrift
through space. (LJC)
DG = Denis M. Garrison LJC = Lisa Janice Cohen
Wind and Rain (thematically linked sequence) was published in Poetic Voices - April 2002. Copyright © 2002 by Denis M. Garrison.
Celestial Navigation (collaborative linked sequence) was published in AMAZE: The Cinquain Journal #2,
Fall & Winter 2002. Copyright © 2002 by Denis M. Garrison and Lisa Janice Cohen.
(Used here with permission.)
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