C is for Cat Cinquain and Clerihew, Too.

Day 3 AtoZ Challenge - C

My C watercolor is a Cat, with a Cinquain* and a Clerihew**, too.  I couldn't decide which to do.

Cat Napping

Shadow

Hums in the dark

Happy to curl up under

Or on my bed, knowing that I 

Am near.

by Donna JT Smith ©2025

 

And a Clerihew, too:

 

Miss Shadow McCat

Knows just where it's at;

In darkest recesses

She makes hairball messes.

 

 by Donna JT Smith ©2025

 

* Adelaide Crapsey's American Cinquain form is a stanza of five lines. The lines have stresses, in order: line 1 has 1 stresses syllable, line 2 has 2 stressed syllables, 3, has 3, 4 has 4, and 5 has 1.  The number of syllables per line are 2, 4, 6, 8, and 2. The strict strict structure and physical imagery is used to communicate a mood or feeling.

**A clerihew  is a four-line biographical poem of a type invented by Edmund Clerihew Bentley. The first line is the name of the poem's subject (usually a famous person). The poem is whimsical and humorous. It has an often forced AABB rhyme. The line length and metre can be and are often irregular.

B is for Butterfly Ballad

 

April 2 - B

B is for Butterfly Ballad - A Balladified Acrostic for the Butterfly:

 

Butterfly

Beauty's iridescent wings

Under the canopy, over field

Tagging hues, faceted eyes spy

Twinkling flowers bobbing, petals yield.

Enticed by nectar, its tubered tongue

Ripples forth to call of blooms;

Flourishing in each nourishing, Beauty

Lifts off sprightly, never zooms.

"Yum!" it fairly hums. 

 

by Donna JT Smith ©2025

A is for an Apple Acrostic

 

April 1 A

Good to see everyone again!

My theme is Watercolor and Words

I will be doing a small watercolor image and writing a poem to accompany it.  I am mostly experimenting with the watercolors still, so don't expect perfection....

Here's the first:  An Apple Acrostic

by Donna JT Smith, 2025

 

Ambrosia with a crunch,

Plucked fresh from a tree,

Plump and sweet to fill a pie; for

Lunch I could

Eat three! 

          by Donna JT Smith ©2025

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