Writing challenge: Cinquain Chain

[Woof]

So... wanna play a game? I write a cinquain, the next person uses the last line to write the next one and so on till the servers die or we do

For clarity's sake, we'll use the standardised form of five lines and a syllable count of:

Line 1 - 2 syllables
Line 2 - 4 syllables
Line 3 - 6 syllables
Line 4 - 8 syllables
Line 5 - 2 syllables

The subject can be anything, it doesn't need to rhyme. If you choose your words carefully it can take on a really nice shape but it's not necessary.

Newbies and veteran poets alike welcome. Short forms like this are really versatile so offer something for everyone, hopefully

Here's a famous one:

November Night

Listen …
With faint dry sound,
Like steps of passing ghosts,
The leaves, frost-crisp’d, break from the trees
And fall.

Adelaide Crapsey 1878 –1915 (This poem is in the public domain)


So the next person would use 'And fall' to start their poem, like this...

 

[Woof]

And fall
From grace to scorn
With reckless abandon
Embrace the only choice you have
Let go

 

[Louanne Learning]

Let go

Let go.
I cannot breathe
Under your possession.
I beg; let me be free of your
Shadow.

 

[Woof]

Shadow
Of light begins
The dawn, defines the day
And brokers the return of night’s
Descent

 

[Louanne Learning]

Descent

Descent.
Generations.
Variability.
Diversity of life ascends:
Nature.

 

[Woof]

Nature
Demands we risk
Our selves to procreate
Or only create on writing
Forums

 

[Louanne Learning]

Forums

Forums
attract all kinds
of writers who share words,
both comedy and tragedy
expressed.