American Cinquain of Orion and the Seventh Sister
Merging a very funny GEICO commercial with Greek mythology
Ravyne Hawke’s daily poetry prompt for October 30th from her pub Promptly Written inspired this American Cinquain, which I learned of a while back from Michael Hall.
The American cinquain is a 5 line poem with a 2/4/6/8/2 syllabic structure, and should contain “intense physical imagery to communicate a mood or feeling.”
Ravyne prompted us to create a poem from this image:
My Poem:
Oh my! My sisters fled Rapacious Orion What was I thinking hiding here? Bulls-eye!!
Decoder Ring:
The first thing that came to my mind when I looked at the picture was a target on an archery range and this symbol 🎯
I have always liked the constellation Orion, perhaps because I have always found that along with the moon, or when my loony friend is absent, he keeps me company on walks or runs under the stars. Orion is an archer. You can see that he has his bow drawn and loaded in the feature image.
“In Greek mythology, the Pleiades were the seven daughters of the Titan Atlas. He was forced to hold up the sky for eternity, and was therefore unable to protect his daughters. To save the sisters from being raped by the hunter Orion, Zeus transformed them into stars. But the story says one sister fell in love with a mortal and went into hiding, which is why we only see six stars.” — Source
The 4th line of the poem stems from the GEICO commercial wherein the stupid kids hide from the deranged killer wearing a hockey mask in a barn full of chainsaws instead of getting into the running car. As Halloween is tomorrow, that comic ode to that movie and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre came to mind.
Yesterday I posted this piece honoring Ravyne:
Hey, syllabic form poets and other experts, I’m still waiting for someone to pick up on that there is a second tanka in that story hiding in plain sight.
Here are my two previous responses to Ravyne’s daily prompts — each one of those required the poet to incorporate at least 5 words from a list of 10 into its poem, which is a fun challenge:
Tagging for participation in these challenges, which also have fiction prompts: Carolyn F. Chryst, Ph.D. Joseph Lieungh Anthi Psomiadou Claire Kelly Stuart Englander Tree Langdon Holly Kellums Melanie J. Ane Cris jules Agnes Laurens William J Spirdione Thief Kira Dawn I. Trudie Palmer Dr. Preeti Singh Sahil Patel Diana C. Dr. Fatima Imam JS Adam Christina M. Ward Somsubhra Banerjee Samantha Lazar Amy Marley Libby Shively McAvoy Carrie. A. Kelly Danna Z Arthur G. Hernandez
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