Cinquain Train

[Perscribo]

As one
card falls face down,
unplayable jokers
break into jigs for the rumbling
full house.

 

[B.D. Eyeslie]

Full house–
life long ago
sculpted by tragedies
sanded and smoothed by successes–
small flat

 

[kinokonoronin]

Small flat;
nice neighborhood;
job opportunities;
beautiful, vibrant cityscape;
inquire!

 

[Perscribo]

Inquire;
eyes to the stars
or deep cerulean.
At least once a day the silence
answers.

 

[kinokonoronin]

Answers
flee grasping hands
like butterflies adrift,
unsought upon the still finger
alight.

 

[CDSinex]

A light
mist fills the air.
After sunrise it will
all burn off, joining the clouds in
the sky

 

[oneblindmouse]

The sky
fills with pink clouds
that glide lazily east.
A bird chirps farewell to the light
of day.

 

[Diospyros kaki]

Of day
flowers in pots
and birds in their cages.
Of night with stars on closed curtains.
Earth Day.

 

[kinokonoronin]

Earth, day
of squandered light,
night of blossoming thorns,
we sleep with open eyes and see
the void.

 

[xandraxian]

the void:
weightless, silent
yet deafening—ba bump...
gulp, pop...ba bump...hiss, hum...ba bump...
endless

 

[Perscribo]

Endless
lines, lanes, lessons
of illusive intent.
Do you even remember how
to fly?

 

[CDSinex]

To fly,
perchance to … Ah,
what would Shakespeare have said?
Fledglings perching on their nest’s edge
ponder.

 

[LuaVerena]

Ponder
This - you ‘love’ me,
Yet you never knew me -
Never tried. You never will. What
A waste.

 

[kinokonoronin]

A waste
laid before me
calls my name with silence.
Can I but go out wandering
To death?

 

[CDSinex]

To death
we inch onward,
with no kicking or screams,
day-by-day as the future draws
closer.

 

[kinokonoronin]

Closer,
our hands brush past,
you nurse an almost smile,
and I wonder if we two want
the same.

 

[B.D. Eyeslie]

The same
looks and wonders
kept my eyes fixed on yours.
Anticipation drew us in
as one.

 

[Perscribo]

as one
filly finds trot
thoroughbreds start to clop
messages from the prairie mare
run wild

 

[kinokonoronin]

Run wild,
sprint in the sun,
dance under the moonlight,
whisper to the loam with both feet;
you live!

 

[Perscribo]

You live,
yuppie gangster,
cup to cup, lane to lane,
without even smelling your own
front yard.

 

[Magsie]

front yard
snowdrops and trees
rich cool grass in the shade
cars pass and pass and pass and pass
pity

 

[kinokonoronin]

Pity,
seeing you here:
delight was your absence,
paradise your fading mem'ry;
joy fades.

 

[Perscribo]

Joy fades;
rosy, sinking
into pink horizon.
Rise up with the scream-bloated moon.
Let loose.

 

[B.D. Eyeslie]

Let loose
the flannel robe
pull me into your warmth
after the fieldstone hearth goes cold
we glow

 

[Perscribo]

We glow;
overlap smiles,
auras, fingers, chakras.
Come, Little Bear. Light this city
with me.