Tonight.. (Cinquain butterflies)

...........Tonight
.......We remember
.Guy Fawkes' foiled fire plot
On The houses Of Parliament
...........Tonight
....we warm our hands
.and faces with loved ones.
The dark sky erupts in colour
...........Tonight

M. Moran
23.28
05.11.08

*Cinquain*

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.

Cinquain Butterflies

A merged mirror cinquain where the two stanzas of a mirror cinquain are merged
Together, one of the middle 2 syllable lines is dropped, resulting in one nine line stanza of the
Form 2-4-6-8-2-8-6-4-2).