Short Quintet Poems

You struggle with right and wrong
I watch and worry so
With prayers I helped along
Now time for me to go
Who will pray when I am gone...

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 "Love Shone a Light"
     upon this
"Puppet on a String"
with a
 "Boom Bang-a-Bang"
it helped
 "Making Your Mind Up"
to
"Save Your Kisses for Me...

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Tracks of the cross hid from sight
The blood that shed dust now blend
Nails of iron frail and light
Wood has rot as wood does tend
Breath of Christ alive in the wind...

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monorhymed quintet

Aunty Karen, what is this?
A guitar, my little miss,
this is how you play, sweet sis.
Her music makes both dogs hiss;
but to Ella, it is bliss.


written 30 March 2016...

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How can we get closer than a sweet kiss?
Two lovers drift in the arms of first sin 
There is the sharing of lovers own skin
Closer than a kiss, where it did begin
That’s how we get closer sharing a kiss

© 3/01/2013 

Contest Entry Envelop Quintet....

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Trees dance while autumn sweeps the day

until the music fades

but when boughs brood beneath the snow

to rest in winter's shade,

each naked limb sleeps undismayed




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For Andrea's Contest: Envelop Quintet...

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I get a little bolder
getting older
since my unravel,
voice travels
to my Beholder.

Rough and tumble, rolls along,
but you’re not wrong
if you are shrinking,
not thinking
lyrics to a song…

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A Streambed Quintet: 7a:4a:5b:3b:5a...

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envelope quintet

Legs and feet are in stocks, no sound from my voicebox 
at one edge of a dream, I want to scream.
On the other side lies long-awaited surprise
After panting upstream, pushing sweat to extreme
my voice  unlocks, "She's beautiful!" Motherhood rocks....

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Though at first terrifying,
no denying:
dancing on a wheel
makes it feel
like I am flying.

An aside, for what it’s worth:
unbridled mirth
turns disenchanted
supplanted
by crashing to earth.

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A Streambed Quintet, two or more stanzas of 7a:4a:5b:3b:5a...

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True courage is a firm and steady rock
Amid the quicksand of sinking despair
If you are bogged down with worry and care
And really wish to get away from there
Stand on the rock and get out of the muck








envelope quintet
(a,b,b,b,a, rhyme scheme
10 syllables per line)...

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The lollipop quintet is coming after dinner my six-year-old predicted.
I was slow to believe, I am not all- knowing like him, so feeling conflicted. 
This quintet was at the door singing their lungs out at a quarter to seven. 
I stared at my son, wonder what other talents he had gotten from heaven....

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Sunset sky was like a fiery red flame
wistful touch on her hair with a sigh
Warm, sweet smell of cinnamon apple pie
A rose in my safe caress. Butterfly
heavenly feelings as cupid took aim

© 6/22/2015




Contest Name: Five Lines/ Metaphors And Simile 
Sponsor: Sara Kendrick
Envelope Quintet
10 syllables a,b,b,b,a...

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The sea is angry,
The winds echo her screaming;
The hurricane comes…

Torrential waves
Carry furry to the shores:
Fragility doomed…

Island paradise,
Poised and ready for combat;
Nature’s sad beauty…

Juxtaposition,
Nature canvassing herself:
Springtime hurricanes…

The calm sea rippling;
Lifeless bodies float ashore
The storm moves…...

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The sight is simple, a triumphant vision
The clouds remain in dream’s succulent desire
Not a single realm like this burns quite like fire
I hold the heart of dream, to surely admire
Sparks images on the edge of dream’s beacon

Form Envelope Quintet

Entrant into Andrea Dietrich's "A CATCH-PHRASE DAZZLER: 1 IN 5 CHOICE" contest

12/23/2012...

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Five lines in the sand – his quintet of children is skimming the surf

Like ariels chasing youth not yet knowing Plath’s substanceless blue

Streaming chariots of gleams into fireflies dragons dinosaurs and castles

Oblivious to extinction the full impact of tides and dereliction of beauty

Just foot prints on the shore reaching fast for jetsam flotsam and joy



21st April 2019...

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Summer has quickly come and gone 
you can smell the Fall in the air 
tomorrow will bring a new dawn 
look around, trees are going bare 
Fall jackets, people start to wear. 

Copyright © Cynthia Jones 
Sept.24/2013 

I figured I would try something different (as always), with the different poetry styles that I have. I think I'll be doing many more of these ones. 
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A sound of bedtime prayers are in the trees,
where the doves have nestled among the leaves.
They smooth the feathers of a restless day.
Like the night-birds,... my worries lift away,
sailing far, into twilight's crimson seas.


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5/17/15 For The Contest: Five Lines/Metaphors and Simile
Sponsored By Sara Kendrick Form: Enveloped Quintet...

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A small Native tree frog that is found in the fields of Puerto Rico.
Its color is Brown.  They are called Coqui by the onomatopoeia
sound mating call made by males. 

When is raining , their sound is heard wide spread.  Usually they can be founds 
in the leaves of plantain and bananas. A song called Coqui® was sang by
the 1980's quintet called Menudo ®.









Nayda Ivette
10-29-2015...

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IN HOLY NAVIGATION: A HAIKU QUINTET

Moonlight skies are bright,
My palisaded road clear;
God navigating:-

Destiny awaits,
End of the forest is seen;
God navigating:-

In my life's garden,
I walk a fruit-tree-lined trail;
God navigating:-

In shadows of death,
Blooming life is brightly clear;
God navigating:-

Eyes stayed on the prize,
Dove soaring up the mountain;
God navigating.
 

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The ocean has her romance with the shore;
At times she rushes in with wild delight—
But often creeps ashore with timid soul.
Just like the ocean, we accept our plight
Of ebb and flow—life’s highs and lows explore.


© Sandra M. Haight 2015 
    All Rights Reserved


~1st Place~
Contest: Five Lines/Metaphors and Simile
Sponsor: Sara Kendrick
Judged: 06/29/2015
		
Envelope Quintet



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By day the toys surround her in a group,
But when her little girl is sleeping sound,
The keyboard’s where our poet will be found,
To write some magik lov - her words astound;
She always brings the gift of joy to Soup.

Merry Christmas, Cyndi  xx

*For PD’s contest

Cyndi  wrote a poem, Lov is Magik, as a girl
One of her stories is called The Gift of Joy
She recently used this form, the envelope quintet, in a great poem...

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Five mice form a quintet and sing their heart song.
Many brides hear them and sing right along.
Pretty soon they are making money with their happy tune.
Their sense of music and style is giant, over the moon.

They make a business out of it and become quite a hit.
Have you heard this orchestra? Asks one little chit.
I like them forever, they are truly terrific, says a mouse, lit.
They are now being wedding planners- they sing, dance and flit....

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HAILING MARY                     
(A Haiku Quintet)

Gardening Mary...
Her fruit of love blossoming...
The Christ child is born...  

Her Rose of Love, born:
Crucified stem…petals of resurrection;
Gracefully scenting:-

Gardener’s womb flows…
Her ripe fruit of love is here…
Let’s cistern it’s fruit…

It is harvest time!
The son of God has arrived;
Mary’s star shining…

Hale Mother Mary!
Fruited womb releasing grace—
Glory be to Christ!
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PHRASIS IV
Enduring freshness the illuminating
imagery,the play of fancy in the
passage of sublimity,exquisite
beauty without illusion 
accompany the charm of 
vagueness,our consciousness
precise enough plays freely,
sheds light on our condition.
We crave for more interwoven
and interfused in poetic truth
with an instruct of delight. 
From Alfred Austin- The Bridling of Pegasus 

Listen to me recite this phrasis on youtube under my pen name ichthyschiro...

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The zephyr that I couldn't dismiss
And pouring rain only sounds heard
Then the Spirit gave a good word
Go to sleep_rest, Spirit did undergird
God's presence, closer than a kiss  

Sponsor: Andrea Dietrich
contest: A Catch-Phrase Dazzler: 1 In 5 Choice
Written: December 26, 2012

Envelope Quintet/ information found
Meter at the discretion of writer
Rhyme scheme can be_a, b, b, b, a or 
a, b, c, b, a(usually when more than one stanza 
then the stanzas interlock)...

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