Cinquain Train

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Scorched earth
blisters my feet
keeps me from laying down
as shimmering heat waves look like
water
 

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Note to Corney Gault: I picked up where you left off, but I note that your entry did not start with the last line of the preceding entry as the game requires. I'm just saying...
 

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My world
is frozen now—
so little is stirring.
Even song birds wait, in silence,
for spring.
 
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Start now
bleed, draw, write, run
hastiliy, speedily
lightning outdone thunder's wings
started
 

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Strange case—
this yard sale find,
passed over by many.
A small dark box, unadorned, made
of teak.
 

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In sand
waves, runs, jumps, plays
soft powdery whiteness
bedazzles in the bright sun's rays
sea shells
 

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Sea shells
sit on the beach,
untouched except by rain.
Waiting for summer when children
return.
 

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I think
hop, skip, jump, think
slowly, surely, sweetly
undivided attention turned
do think
 

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Folly
absurd antics
preposterous, silly
followed foolishness, craziness
nonsense
 

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Nonsense!
A late spring snow
dusting newly green grass
like dandelions gone to seed—
surreal.
 

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Surreal
observe, express
illusion, fantasy
subconsciously writing story
sequence
 

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Sequence
of the seasons.
Knowing spring will soon come,
I scan dirty snow for the first
crocus.
 

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the snow
cold, chilled, freezing
fluffy, pearly, frosty
mounds pounded into round person
snowman
 

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Snowman,
disembodied,
does your soul summer on
some glacier scanning valleys for
fresh snow?
 

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Fresh snow?
white puffy flakes
swirling twirling
crystalline facets overflowed
flowers