Five Lines In A Copybook
On the first line i will write my name.
Teacher ask for date;
Day, month and year,
Followed by subject;
Maybe my address should be next.
Second line question:
What year is it?
To tell all will be to expose
My age, though i have no qualms there.
My house is in the country.
Third line will be poetry,
Written with a capital P,
About yellow hills,
Painting a canvas of small words;
No 52 on the road where i live.
The secrets of line four of this Chaguanas girl,
Will soon be exposed to
All in the class room,
Reading aloud to some snickers,
All in a day's English class.
The fifth and final line
Summons applause like
A limerick written to shake
The earth under a rose bush miles away
Here in San Juan; we students had planted
© gillena cox 2023
CHALLENGE to write a poem in five stanzas of five lines per stanza (quintain)write as a Pentastich Quintain (unregulated rhyme, meter etc)each stanza is one of five ways to your house (real or imaginary)can be literal or metaphorical, measured in time, direction, etc or a mixthe title is your own choice but must begin: “Five…………”include a reference to Hererra’s poem somewhere in your post, include references to Herrerra’s poem by including the follow words in order in each of my stanzas: 1 yellow hills; 2 canvas door; 3 the earth; 4 desert secrets 5 a name.
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