Poetry

Get your poetry on! Come play a little game of poem-making. Funniest five poems get a 3 $OP reward (thank you @ponder team).

A cinquain is a 5-line poem, and in this form with 2, 4, 6, 8, and 2 syllables per line. 

Have fun!

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Only if you want to.

There are two things about this. One is to get some feeling for poetry. The other is that doing a little creative thing will help you in the rest of your day, because your creativity is activated, which is good for your problem solving capability.

Riffs off the haiku, that's an interesting observation. That might have to di with the global connectedness of poetry. Of course, the forms I have created myself are very much in that spirit, but the cinquain is an old french form which later in certain corners got this limitation.

But in a way, many poetic forms have a syllable limitation. Even if not so clear. The classic sonnet as written by Shakespeare, for example is 14 lines of iambic pentameter. Basically that means 14 lines of 10 syllables per line.

I like these that are riffs off the haiku....the highku and cincain. limited lines, limited syllables. The opportunity to say a lot in a short space. I seem to follow a style too...both on mine were moving from one similar thing to another moving toward the middle and then out to the end. My mind must like that. I've enjoyed doing these two and you're right it is stimulating to the creative.