Monday, November 19, 2007

Sandhill Cranes at Malheur National Wildlife Refuge

This is a cinquain. It's not one of my favorite forms, but it's for one of Sol's contests.

Tall cranes
sway, elegant.
Boy-meets-girl, Audubon
style, in flooded meadows far from
sandhills.

Malheur National Wildlife Refuge

NB: If you google cinquain with appropriate additional terms like "poetry" "poetic form", you will find there's a great variety of forms that go by this name.


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1 comment:

ozymandiaz said...

What beautiful sound they create. I was out enjoying the evening several nights ago and a flock passed over head, beaded with singular seranades.