Charles Demuth, "I Saw the Figure Five in Gold" -- inspired by a poem of William Carlos Williams
                       Billie Dee: Selected Cinquains 
Selected Cinquains ... California poet BILLIE DEE brings an early 20th Century form to the new millennium. Links to other cinquain sites and e'zines, Adelaide Crapsey's complete cinquains.
Detante

At dawn
the camilias
smell like chilled rain water.
I have finally made peace with
the snails.


Desert Orbs

full moon
rising above
the silhouetted hills--
a pie pan flung by the roadside
shining
         
Amaze, 5:1, Spring 2007


Residue

Toenail
clippings lurking
in the ashtray -- I want
to forget, but you've left so much
behind.

        
Amaze, 4:3, Summer 2006 
           


Climatology

Glacier,
weeping away
to high Sierra schist--
the dunes of Death Valley shimmer
below.
         
Kiku Makura, Nov. 2006
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So what's a cinquain?

Adelaide Crapsey: Complete Cinquains

Art on Art on Art: William Carlos Williams, Charles Demuth and Robert Indiana
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Cinquains for the Lapsed Atheist

Crow Feathers
a crown cinquain series

Renoir's Palate
linked cinquains after Raymond Carver