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Healing Hand, Be Healed

An American cinquain

Forgive Apologise Let go of harboured pain Reject the rules of should and must Be healed

© Carolyn Hastings 2022

The idea I have for this poem is for it to be kept in the palm of your hand as a personal instructional reminder. We all need to tell ourselves these words from time-to-time — and sometimes more often.

An American cinquain is a five-line poem created by American poet, Adelaide Crepsey, with a syllable/line structure of 2–4–6–8–2 worked in iambic (da-DUM) meter.

This is my first attempt at this form of poetry. What do you think?

Here is one by William J Spirdione, A Chickadee Choir —

and another by Kimberly Hampton Nilsson, We Pray —

Each of these American cinquains is part of the wonderful catalogue of poetry that is being compiled for Paper Poetry’s Poemorama celebration of National Poetry Month -

Inviting some more of our Paper Poetry family to join the celebration — Toni Crowe | Thalia Dunn | Neera Handa Dr | Tracy Busby | Lilie Kaizen 🙏 ✨

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