Crown Cinquain
Tell me
Pretty maiden
Where have you been hiding
Lost to me all these many years
Now found
Now found
And full of hope
I am able again
To live in bright expectation
Of joy
Of joy
Of coupled love
Rekindling lost passion
Rebirth for my expiring soul
Time heals
Time heals
The wounds of hurt
Complete again with you
Able again to face my world
In peace
In peace
We start again
The slate now wiped clean
The past dissolved in history
Hope lives
This poem has been composed in response to Abigail Gronway’s (‘Dark Side Of The Moon’) CPC Challenge published 12/4/19. I quote: . . .
The Crown Cinquain
Like the Cinq-Cinquain that we studied last week, the Crown Cinquain, or Cinquain Chain, is also made up of a series of exactly five Crapsey Cinquains. So what’s the difference? I’m glad you asked. The distinguishing feature of the Crown Cinquain appears in the two-syllable lines at the beginning and end of each stanza, as they are used to link one stanza to another. This process is called a forming link, a chain, or a corona (hence crown).
To be more specific, the last line of each cinquain is repeated as the first line of the next cinquain.
There is one other slight difference. In the Cinq-Cinquain, the stanza breaks are optional; but in the Crown Cinquain, they are required.
So here in summary, is the Crown Cinquain:
a series of 5 [entire] Crapsey Cinquains, 25 lines total
syllabic count: 2-8-6-4-2 in each stanza
written with breaks between stanzas
rhyme is optional
last line of the previous cinquain repeated as first line of the next cinquain
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