Thursday, August 8, 2013

Cinquain Poems - Memory Lane

A Cinquain poem is composed of 22 syllables - 5 lines - each line has a function
1st A noun
2nd Description of the 1st line
3rd Action
4th Feeling or effect
5th Synonym for 1st line

 I composed this poem after a chance electronic "chat" with a friend of my mother's - the wife of my first boyfriend who I hadn't seen since her wedding  in my mother's extremely fundamentalist church, 44 years ago.  The whole church was invited to the wedding, as was the custom, so I went although I no longer attended the church nor did I know the bride beyond sight and her name.   Her "chat" took me back to that place and time in my life.  

Mother
focused on God
scorn  and abandon us
making us fearful and unloved
Evil

"A really rough time back then" 

My art
paints, paper, clay, words
turning a blank page bright
sustaining, freeing, opening
Savior

How I got through it.


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