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Cinquain

Mohammad Shahidul Islam

[Note: Cinquain is a type of poetry that in many ways is similar to the Japanese Haiku. US poet Adelaide Crapsey, born September 9, 1878 in Brooklyn, New York, invented it. She enjoyed the Haiku style and adapted it to her own techniques. She named her new construction Cinquain, based on the French word "Cinq" for "five". The Cinquain is always made up of five lines. In Adelaide's original form, those lines would have 2 syllables, 4 syllables, 6 syllables, 8 syllables and then 2 syllables again. Modern forms of the Cinquain often use word counts instead; like: titling in first line, feedback, action and refraining of first line in meaning at the end. In either case, the content type of the line is the same. Both forms have been pursued in the following Cinqains.]

[1]
Man
Secret, tamed
Loving, warring, reigning
Nothing surprise human brain
Woman

[2]
Moon light
oozes on lonely
room, we are sharing love
inside the rose garden, a rat
runs by

[3]
Price of
Goods is hiking
No one is controlling
A rickshaw puller has committed
Suicide

[4]
Love
Pricey, painstaking
Dating, missing, gossiping
A fair invitation to ruin and art
Blind

[5]
Long hair Black, blond
Shining, scissoring, shampooing
Scented hair touches heart
Womanhood

[6]
Politics
Fertilize family
Business, channels, airlines;
Swelled stomach, morality and voice-misery

[7]
Beauty
Brave, spurring
Earning, make-upping, sleeping
A tiring job, investment of body
Lady

[8]
Nature
Soothing, profuse
Shadowing, saving, airing
Birth of pantheism lies on
Life

[9]
Dhaka is a zoo of
enemy, car, light, rich
and poor; could be
shown by tic-
-keting

[10]
Poetry
Gets life and heart
Ode, sonnet, limerick
Pen the agony of earth and
People
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Mohammad Shahidul Islam studied English at University of Chittagong.