tick tock (a butterfly cinquain)

It takes
many tick tocks
before your wings open,
to taste its first lick of earth’s wind
before
your lightweight feathers kiss earth’s breeze
While the clock is singing
learn patience in
waiting.

—

03.23.2018
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In response to Blogging from A to Z Challenge and NaPoWriMo 2018.

B is for Butterfly Cinquain.

Butterfly Cinquain isn’t a cinquain at all:it is a nonostich (9 lines)and uses the syllable count of the Crapsey Cinquain and then reverses it, therefore the misnomer.  The elements of the Butterfly Cinquain are:

1. 9 line poem.

2. syllabic, 2-4-6-8-2-8-6-4-2 syllables per line.

3. unrhymed.