Sunrise,
Tendrils of light
Across the horizon,
Spreading glow that glitters golden
In skies.
My eyes,
Drinking in the morning glimmer
As the waters shimmer,
Behold the bright
Sunrise
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Author Notes
On Father's Day, I got up early to go fishing with my son-in-law and grandson. I captured the sunrise from the shore.
This poem is a Mirror Cinquain
A Cinquain is a five line poem. The format, inspired by Adelaide Crapsey in 1915, has a fixed syllable count of: 2,4,6,8,2. Rhyming is optional.
A Reverse Cinquain has the opposite syllable count of: 2,8,6,4,2.
A Mirror Cinquain is a combination of both the Cinquain and the Reverse Cinquain. So there are two stanzas with the following syllable count: 2,4,6,8,2 2,8,6,4,2. This gives a balanced pattern that is pleasing.
For this poem, I chose to use rhyme. The rhyme scheme is:
Abcca addbA, where the capital letters indicated a repeated line.
This picture was taken by the author himself at Grey Cloud Island on the Mississippi River near St. Paul Park, Minnesota, on June 21, 2015.
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