Poetry Wednesdays

For the poetry writers.

Your topic is: loss of power
Your form is: cinquain

Form layout:

Line One – Two Syllables
Line Two – Four Syllables
Line Three – Six Syllables
Line Four – Eight Syllables
Line Five – Two Syllables

Example by Adelaide Crapsey

Listen…
With faint dry sound,
Like steps of passing ghosts,
The leaves, frost-crisp’d, break from the trees
And fall.

Form reference: Handbook of Poetic Forms