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What A Trip! – A Cinquain

Nancy's Notes 🖊️♬

Written for Cinquain Poetry Prompt #41
where our inspiration is “trip”.
Here’s my mirror cinquain.

Image by Me & ChatGPT

Set off
on a grand trip
with sunscreen, snacks and map,
but I turned right instead of left –
now lost,
oh no!
I tripped on roots and over stones,
sun shining in my eyes.
Oh what a sight,
stumbling
along.
Here’s to the trip
that went terribly wrong –
just another misadventure
in life.



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Nancy’s Notes: The syllables per line for an American Cinquain are 2 – 4 – 6 – 8 – 2.

This is “Tripping” by Robbie Williams

Cinquain Poetry Prompt 41: TRIP is your inspiration.

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