Grief ~ a crown cinquain

Summer
drenched in sea salt,
caramel promises,
conch shell concertos, slow dancing
with you

With you
disappearing
yearning, a dirty word
fury, a furnace inside burns
stories

Stories
of justice lie
in dank market-places
bartering lost souls for cheap bribes
of love

Of love
the scribe etches
with nails, in veins of dark,
cold blood that drags down to near death
two words

Two words,
twining tendrils
of squandered hope, stand still,
till Time stops its cycle to yell
Let Go

Mindfills for dVerse Poetics – on Kubler-Ross’ stages of grief (denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance) dVerse MTB – Cinquain

The cinquain chain/crown cinquain.

a series of 5 [entire] Crapsey Cinquains, 25 lines total
syllabic count: 2-4-6-8-2 in each stanza
written with a break between each stanza
last line of the previous cinquain repeated as first line of the next cinquain
Note: The final line of the last cinquain does not have to equal the first line of the first cinquain, but it is an option.