OMG, look what I’ve done now.

Hello

Thank you so much for coming to read my poem.

I had to do a v. v. v long journey recently which, joyously, gave me lots of time for poetry 🙂 As a result I have pawed a garland cinquain in response to Colleen’s weekly poetry challenge. The prompt words this week – to be used synonymously – are: congregate and passion.

This is what a cinquain is all about.

A garland cinequi is a sequence of five stand alone cinquains with a sixth one that takes a line, in sequence, from each of the preceding five.

I have done my jolly best to stick to all the rules. Admittedly, line 3 of cinequi 4 doesn’t have obvious verbs but, if you had ever seen us dogs go, you would know we are the very personification of doing words 😎

I got a little carried away, with the whole thing of picking lines from preceding cinquains to make a new one thing, so… using my big Border Collie brains, I played around a bit – see no. 5. What larks 🙂

 

Our best people friend Trevor, with treats for Maisie, Amber and me

 

Morning
Forest beckons
Our people gathering
Excitement heralding the day
Walking

Chestnuts
Green canopy
Filtering sunlit paths
Canine playground, ecstatic dogs
Chasing

Mary
Derek, Stewart,
Meeting – David, Trevor
Talking about the president
Raging

Benzie,
Maisie, Toby,
Amber, Sam and Chuckles
Convene the doggy parliament
Zealous

Morning
Walking Chestnuts
Chasing Mary raging
Benzie zealous in protection
Barking

Morning
Green Canopy
Meeting – David, Trevor
Convene the doggy parliament
Barking

By Ben, the dog poet © 2018

That was hard work, must sleep.

And so to bed

Love Ben xx