Diamonds

Cinquain for Poets Cafe

Diamonds
a girls best friend
she shows it off with pride
blushing knowing she will soon wed
crystal










Cinquain is a short, usually unrhymed poem consisting of twenty-two syllables distributed as 2, 4, 6, 8, 2, in five lines. It was developed by the Imagist poet, Adelaide Crapsey. (For further information, please scroll down for an article on Cinquain from the SP Quill Quarterly Magazine written by Deborah P Kolodji.)