November 2016

sometimes
prescriptions fail
to cure the malady
Trump wins the election since you've
gone blind

This form is similar to a butterfly cinquain except the syllable count is not reversed in the second cinquain. The closest format I could find to this example would be a cinquain swirl which can be any number of repetitions in the pattern of 2-4-6-8-2-4-6-8. I think I'll just call it a twin cinquain in that the last 2 words of the first cinquain are repeated for the first 2 lines of the second cinquain, joining both poems. It consists of two stanzas.

ELIXIRS

(A Twin Cinquain)

Flowers

petaling out

their wares. Fantastic shapes

and colors you can't live without

Each spring,

each time that jumps

forward, I remember

how you said you would leave me with

flowers.

The Procrastinator's Bible

Today
I've invested
too much time on tickets
for tomorrows that will never
arrive

Farm Road 1162

Yellowed 
cornstalks. The wind 
travels through the dead rows
of times we were together and
apart.

Leaving Missouri

Under 

the influence

of rain-soaked streets, the car

ahead hydroplanes into the

future.

Cindy Tebo

Colorado

Blue spruce
you hoped would grow
taller than the cedars. . .
some of its lost needles in the 
bird's nest

Diamond Quality

Matchsticks
dampened by rain
or some other sadness.
Too many strikes. The light goes out
again.