C is for Cat Cinquain and Clerihew, Too.

It's April, so the Blogging from AtoZ Challenge has officially begun.  My theme is Watercolor and Words.  This year I am painting a watercolor to go with each letter and composing a poem to accompany it with a type of poetry that starts with the letter of the day.  I am mostly experimenting with the watercolors still, so don't expect perfection....

Clicking on the letter of the day will bring you to the main site which has links to get to other participants if you would like to go on an alphabetical adventure!

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.