Your words show your loving nature, John.You met us few days back but seems we already knew each other.The way you come up with your comments is incredible.To praise and give time on other works is not an easy job but you are always there,like a good friend, to cheer up all your friends.You have a great taste and no doubt you find out the positive side in everything.
I feel myself lucky,John...May you get every happiness...
Judi, thanks for your comment. It was fun experimenting with this style, which is new to me. Karen, I'll be watching for your cinquains. Thanks for your visit. Buzz, you're starting my morning with a warm fuzzy. Thank you so much! Natalie, I'm happy that you feel I've captured what I was trying for. Thanks! Susan, will do. Maria, so many Gatherers are able to say so much with so few words, I found it to be an interesting challenge. Even a sonnet isn't very many words but some of these shorter forms can be a lot of fun. Again, thank you all for your visits and your comments.
There are so many avenues to poetic expression ranging from the strictly structured to the free verse and some things seem to lend themselves to one better than another. I once wrote a tribute in trochaic pentameter in the style of Longfellow's Hiawatha which worked partly because so many of the words like water, cabin, friendship, forest, are all trochees. Thanks for your visit.
Thank you for your visits and comments. Dorian, yes, I was tempted to try it. It's totally different from the few other forms I've dabbled in. Lacey, great to see you back!
I'm reflecting on the positivity in your cinquain. I feel that short poems naturally lean in this direction. Or is it that the ones I take notice of lean in that direction. No matter, I am sure you will have fun with style.
John, I am not a poet-although my high school team mascot was Poets-so I am not familiar with this art form, but your words are so poetic. Thanks for sharing and summing up my feelings on the gathder community.
John, this is wonderful! Thank you. I'm so glad you made a comment on my dad's menu - He homesteaded in Wisconsin back in 1920 - I still have the land! He ran a place on Hwy 51 and County K - called The Midway Garage - perhaps some of your relatives knew him. Elmer Titus. Anyway, thanks for this and your comment! Salud
Very neat! I can honestly say I've never experienced one of these formats that I can recall! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for answering my Christmas Question #3 of the 25 Days of Christmas Questions! As promised, I always reciprocate comments made to my articles/pics!
Thanks for the comment. I don't know if my response will show up or not. At least one of my submissions and one by another to this thread have disappeared. I mentioned in my comment on one of your 25 Christmas days posts that I don't comment for the purpose of reciprocation, but you're certainly welcome to visit my posts.
One of my idiosyncrasies is to picture the author of the verse at the moment their peacock nib touches the paper (a metaphor for this day from a few moons back). I can, while wearing a houndstooth hat, imagine you were listening to your stereo while thinking in Cinquain mode. Maybe a little dancing before or after, I don't really know, but the song playing I'm quite sure of. It was 'You've Got To Accentuate The Positive.' I just wonder if it was Bing Crosby or Perry Como singing or a Polka Band playing it next door where I guess they get quite wild.
Of course I'm not old enough to remember "...don't mess with Mister In Between", Bill. But the thought is there. In the 50's we had two radio stations and both played polkas almost constantly! Since Svetlana is still an ocean+ away, I didn't do any dancing. If I hum all day tomorrow it will be your fault!
I know from my stroke that stress comes quite easily by always accentuating the negative. Bing said we should accentuate the positive. I've noticed almost all TV shows deal with constant themes of realistic contention and I do believe this causes people to feel this normal without realizing how destructive it is to health. Our media seems obsessed with fear.
Thanks for the visit and chuckles, Bill. I'll try to remember to use the wasabi with rare tuna and leave it out of my chili relleno! I much prefer the way you play with words in your delightful poems.
To Whom It May concern seems a bit formal, so I'll just say to my Gather friends, Happy Holidays. I have had so many chores and things to do that it has been tough to find time to comment. I love to write and I try to set aside at minimum 2 hours a day just to write whatever. My thought is always of you, my audience. You are an inspiration and I try to be entertaining. I read all of your comments. I should respond more. I appreciate good or bad reviews. All I take as a positive. Please oh please give me 10 stars!!! My goodness, I feel like I'm in First grade. I could give a good squat about the stars. Well, it has become just impossible to reciprocate in a timely manner, so I'm just putting this in your comments as a way to say one word. Thanks. May God bless.
Bil, I enjoy your writing and your comments. When I find no comment I am not offended. Thank you for being and sharing who you are and rest assured that this Gatherer will savor whatever comes this way. You have been most generous and playful in your responses.
Don't eat too much peacock over the holidays. I understand that peacock a la king is a great way to use leftovers.
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Thanks for commenting on my poems,
I feel myself lucky,John...May you get every happiness...
Karen, I'll be watching for your cinquains. Thanks for your visit.
Buzz, you're starting my morning with a warm fuzzy. Thank you so much!
Natalie, I'm happy that you feel I've captured what I was trying for. Thanks!
Susan, will do.
Maria, so many Gatherers are able to say so much with so few words, I found it to be an interesting challenge. Even a sonnet isn't very many words but some of these shorter forms can be a lot of fun.
Again, thank you all for your visits and your comments.
Blessings and best wishes - S.
My friend,
Flying*:
Dorian, yes, I was tempted to try it. It's totally different from the few other forms I've dabbled in.
Lacey, great to see you back!
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Well, Bonita, you may be shocked by my other cinquain. Thanks for your comment.
Playing with words
Can be so much fun.
Have a lovely day!
I'm so glad you made a comment on my dad's menu - He homesteaded in Wisconsin back in 1920 - I still have the land! He ran a place on Hwy 51 and County K - called The Midway Garage - perhaps some of your relatives knew him. Elmer Titus. Anyway, thanks for this and your comment! Salud
Thanks for answering my Christmas Question #3 of the 25 Days of Christmas Questions! As promised, I always reciprocate comments made to my articles/pics!
Merry Christmas Comments
I mentioned in my comment on one of your 25 Christmas days posts that I don't comment for the purpose of reciprocation, but you're certainly welcome to visit my posts.
If I hum all day tomorrow it will be your fault!
comming into being to be read as Cinquains !!
thank you dear John, Bill and Marianne !!!
Sujata, thank you for your comment.
Well done John.
Cinquain
Concupiscence
Colloquial coughing
Confessional
Contrite
Cinquain
Patchwork landscape
Sudden gust sparkles swirl
So playfully
Snowy
May God bless.
Don't eat too much peacock over the holidays. I understand that peacock a la king is a great way to use leftovers.
Friends is a nice verse to reread on a Saturday morning on Gather.
Barbary, thank you. I enjoyed your post this morning.
So simple...it made me smile.
Thanks, John.