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Hello Poets,
Happy Thanksgiving to those celebrating this weekend. Thanks so much to children's author, Buffy Silverman for hosting our holiday weekend round-up.
Thanks also to all those that shared photos and snippets from the recent NCTE gathering in Denver, CO. It was really fun to see the happy faces and bits of wisdom shared amongst the participants via social media pics and posts.
It's a quiet weekend of family here. All my kids are home. My mother-in-law has joined us. Our new dog, Dolly, is learning how to fit into our family circus of kids and cats and work schedules. Life is good and full of love and laughter. I feel blessed.
I was intrigued with the cinquains Karen E. shared last week. What a fun form to play with. Here are two from the season I'm in.
November
muted, softened
raking, gathering, crackling
saying goodbye for now
fading
Linda Mitchell 11/28/25
Thanksgiving
Pregame to Christmas Day All the aunts and uncles All their favorite casseroles turkeys
Linda Mitchell 11/21/25
How to write a cinquain
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| Franz Marc. 1910. In the public domain |
Linda, you are in a season of fullness! The "turkeys" at the end brought a big smile. Thank you! xo
ReplyDeleteLike irene, I love the ending "turkeys", Linda. They've had their month of being in the limelight! You've given me inspiration to try the cinquain, and that "fading" feels very true right now. Have a lovely weekend before back to work!
ReplyDeleteLove how the opening lines in each ("muted,softened" and "pregame") usher us so beautifully into the place of the poem, and how the ending lines echo in my mind. Linda, you have inspired me to try a cinquain as these both have so much presence. Thank you!
ReplyDeleteFun! I knew of the syllabic cinquain, but not the noun one. Thanks for sharing and inspiring some weekend poetry, Linda.
ReplyDeleteHappy Thanksgiving! I’m glad you had a house full. I am waiting for mine to arrive today. We put it off for a day due to travel schedules. What a fun form to play with. I like your November one as we have been raking and raking around here. I’m trying to use some of the leaves for mulch.
ReplyDeleteI feel that November poem (but our fading is currently covered with a blanket of white.) I hope your "pregame" (brilliant metaphor!) was a happy one.
ReplyDeleteThank you for the cinquain instructions! That gives me my next challenge. Yay. The November one especially speaks to me. The fallen leaves of our Japanese maple make me want to do something creative with them!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the Cinquain instructions, Linda. Definitely will try this. I too, love the surprise of "Turkeys" after speaking about aunts and uncles. Reminded me of watching my children having such silly fun yesterday with their nieces and nephews.
ReplyDeleteDear Linda, appreciations for sharing the Giving Thanks Weekend with #PoetryFriday here whilst your house is abuzz with Family & also for the inspiration about the cinquain form, which I haven't tried in tooooo long. I like each but "November" fits our tulip poplar's paper ruffle drop, this year.
ReplyDeleteI love that you had a full house. I, too, enjoyed reading the posts from NCTE. And your cinquains were fun.
ReplyDeleteI love cinquains--is your first line of November missing? That would totally be appropriate for me, who feels like November was accidentally shortened somehow. Glad you have so many blessings, Linda!
ReplyDeleteIt looks that way...but November is the title/first line by the 'Word cinquain' format. I should remove the space between the title and remaining lines to make more sense.
DeleteTwo poem-gems followed by two sweet kitty-gems! I think I need to try some of each kind of cinquain, too!
ReplyDeleteI love both of these cinquains, Linda! Each one has its own energy and personality. And Franz Marc's kitties — love! Your holiday sounds blessedly lovely.
ReplyDelete"turkeys" LOL -- that made me laugh! Love what you did with the form!
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