Colleen’s weekly challenge photo prompt:

Ashore
Dreams lost at sea
Woven within secrets
Bound by duty, threaded in fear
Marooned
Yonder
Beyond spiked rocks
Across the everglades
Hope’s meadow blooms resplendent
Waiting
Unseen
Drenched beneath waves
A pebbled myriad –
paves the way to lush frondescence
Disguised
High tide
Seeking to drown
But spraying pearls instead
Adorns the path to happiness
To peace
My dreams
Lie discarded
And yet they call to me
From shores of possibility
Unfound
Ashore
Beyond spiked rocks
A pebbled myriad –
adorns the path to happiness
Unfound
It’s never too late to follow your dreams
For Colleen’s photo prompt this week, I wrote a garland Cinquain.
This is a combination of six cinquains
Each stands alone,
But together they form one whole.
Its deeper beauty comes in the final 6th cinquain, that is;
Line1 from line1 of the 1st cinquain.
Line2 from line2 of the 2nd cinquain… and so on…
Until line5 from line5 of the 5th cinquain.
I hope you enjoy this as much as I enjoyed crafting it.
Stay safe, and keep chasing those dreams.
60 responses to “Sequestered Dreams (A Garland Cinquain)”
I loved your cinquain. I loved them on their own and as a whole β€οΈ
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Thanks alot Shweta. I’m glad you enjoyed theseβ€οΈ
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It’s my pleasure π
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Amazing!!!
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Thanks alot Eraβ€οΈπ
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You’re most welcome π
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I imagined the sea. I imagined a dream coming true. I could picture this as I read it.
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I’m so glad this had such beautiful effects. It’s really why I was writing it. Thank you so much Michaela
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Single or woven together, your garland of words bring out a distinct fragrance and imagery Jude.
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This is exactly what I wanted. Thank you so much Radhika πΈ. I’m grateful Mon Ami ππΌ
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Hi Jude. Your cinquain started sombre, had beautifully crafted positive gems in the middle and ended on a sombre note. Really lovely.
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I’m glad you appreciate this Kim. Crafting it was quite the challenge for me. Thank you my friend β€οΈπ·
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Perfection. Bravo.
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Hi Gabriella. Thank you so much Mon Ami π·π·πΈ
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c’est mon plaisir mon cher ami
xoxo
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ooh the French tingles very pleasantly. Merci Gabriella πΌ
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de rien π
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I like … Seeking to drown but spraying pearls instead. A Visual Cinquain!
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Thank you so much. I really wanted it to be visual and metaphoric. Sometimes while people/circumstances are trying to bring us down, they actually show us exactly what we need to do
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So true. Nicely worded.
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Skill and Emotion B)
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Wow, that’s high praise. I’m so grateful JayππΎ
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You’re welcome!
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Fabulous garland cinquain Jude.. a challenge to write but you made it look easy.
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Thank you so much. I’m glad it feels good and easy, it was really a challenge
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I know.. I have to be feeling very serene to attempt one lol..
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I really get you. Last night when I did it, I had Enya playing in the background
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lol.. that would do it.
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The sea and the dreamsπ§‘π§‘ I think I now have another vision of how my dreams look like now. I love this. Great read as always.
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Thank you so much Jackie. I saved your latest posts. I’ll be over to read later π
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This is such a challenging form! And yours flows so well, like the sea. There are always shores of possibility. (K)
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Thank you K. It means alot that you like this
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Always a pleasure. π
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I have always enjoyed water… Lucky to live by a creek.
I do have a dream of living by an ocean ~ to step out (maybe not so close for flooding or bad weather…) but to be able to walk a beach at any time. Vacations will have to do for now… at least the dream of vacations anyway π
Colleen had another challenging form… a Kindku. ‘All forgiven in a day… July 20, 2020.
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Yeah the oceanside seems dreamy. I saw Colleen’s kindhu post, I was trembling just reading the instructions
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Like found poetry… not really a form, well the later parts that I enjoy. The syllable count is interesting and the idea. But I don’t like hunting for pre-existing words in book titles, other poems or even the newspaper. But then I am rarely at a loss to write about something, as pretty much everything inspires me. Another foil for me is sonnets and forced rhymes.
Just because the mountain is there doesn’t mean we have to climb it π Sometimes a nice walk around it is good to π
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Sonnets are a classic, perhaps they should be conserved the way they are. I have used the form to write free verse poetry at times though
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Beautiful cinquain and sentiments. I created one a few weeks ago and enjoyed the challenge.
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Thank you so much for appreciating
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My pleasure.
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I really enjoyed it, I like the connection with dreams! Well done!
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This means so much. Thank you Elizabeth. β€οΈπΌπ·
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I adore this Judeππ
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Thank you so much Michelle ππ·
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Nicely done, Jude!
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Thank you so much Merrill πΌπΈ
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You’re very welcome!
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Jude, this is amazing! I love the connections you made with each stanza. I loved this stanza:
High tide
Seeking to drown
But spraying pearls instead
Adorns the path to happiness
To peace
I’ve got to add this one to my book. It is pure brilliance! β€
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Thank you so much Colleen.
I’m glad you like that stanza. Yes, sometimes what doesn’t kill you, only makes you stronger and shows us the right path.
I’m honoured you’re considering this for your book. I hope it’s not too late, but if it is, I’ll take the thought ππβ€οΈπΌ
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Nope, Iβve added it! This is so good! β€οΈ
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Thank you so much my friend β€οΈ
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I love how you put dreams and the sea together- I would never have thought of that!
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That’s high praise from you Pooja, you’re so creative πΈ
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You’re just as creative trust me!
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Jude, that is gorgeous. Your imagination, word craft ,and vocabulary are superb. I love it. π
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Oh thank you so much. I’m really glad you appreciate this
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