Poetry A Crown Cinquain for a Numenera Mystery

[darkliquid]

I decided to knock together a crown cinquain over the last half hour or so that warns of a Numenera artifact with terrible powers. Perhaps it can be used in a campaign as a rumour or warning but otherwise it stands alone as rough exercise in structured poetry. Anyways - enjoy!


To sink


below the earth


you must find sleep in death


and journey long. The way is dark


and bleak.


Beneath


the roaming hills


sleeping stones are turning.


They are weeping, curled in perfect


spheres.


Echoes,


spheres singing.


Musical eggs, they crack


the lightest touch, it brings you back


to life.


Awake,


reborn again


anew, you rise, but changed


the singing o' the spheres reforged


your heart.


Stronger,


Faster, colder, harder.


Beneath the roaming hills, weeping


the spheres enslave their next victim.


Arise.

 

[The Dark Wizard]

I decided to knock together a crown cinquain over the last half hour or so that warns of a Numenera artifact with terrible powers. Perhaps it can be used in a campaign as a rumour or warning but otherwise it stands alone as rough exercise in structured poetry. Anyways - enjoy!
To sink


below the earth


you must find sleep in death


and journey long. The way is dark


and bleak.


Beneath


the roaming hills


sleeping stones are turning.


They are weeping, curled in perfect


spheres.


Echoes,


spheres singing.


Musical eggs, they crack


the lightest touch, it brings you back


to life.


Awake,


reborn again


anew, you rise, but changed


the singing o' the spheres reforged


your heart.


Stronger,


Faster, colder, harder.


Beneath the roaming hills, weeping


the spheres enslave their next victim.


Arise.

!

 

[Grey]

That looks very usable to me. A cinquain, you say? I am embarrassed to confess I'm not familiar with that structure.

 

[darkliquid]

A cinquain is fairly simple, typically iambic with 5 lines following a 2,4,6,8,2 syllable format. A crown cinquain is a single poem with 5 stanzas, each one a cinquain.

 

[Grey]

Yes, I did a bit of reading. I quite like the idea of trying a garland cinquain, so thank you for that.

 

[Wolf Rawrrr]

Inspiring. Nicely wrought *bark*


The structure is new to Wolf as well. Something new every day.


Hm. A bit unrefined, perhaps, but in a good way - don't ask. I love the unrefined. It reminds me of old me.