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.