Crashing waves
Splashing children
Deep thinking trickles like sand
I’m seeking peace:
waves wash over me.
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Demo cinquain poem for class today. Kids chose theme of beach, and I wrote a line with a different poetic device in each: alliteration, assonance, consonance, onomatopoeia, internal rhyme. Turns out, it sounds better in reverse, so that’s the version you see here.
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Shawn L. Bird 
Haha, interesting that you were able to just reverse it and make it sound better.
Yes, and I pointed that out to them. They have to write them in order with the labels (they’re already on the hand-out) but they can re-arrange them later if they want. I explained that sometimes the editor/publisher requires certain edits to your writing, but you can always keep a version you like to re-use when your rights revert! π
This is beautifully composed β€