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Reaching Out

Nancy's Notes 🖊️♬

Written for Cinquain Poetry Prompt
where our inspiration is “need”.
Here’s my cinquain.

Image by Me & Copilot

Needed
a quiet word,
yet it carries the weight
of belonging, being someone’s
shelter.

To be
the one they seek
when life gets too heavy;
to hold another’s fragile hope
is grace!

Reward
lives not in praise,
but in silent moments
when someone reaches and finds you
still there.

NAR©2026

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

This is “You Needed Me” by Anne Murray

Cinquain Poetry Prompt 45: NEED is your inspiration.

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26 thoughts on “Reaching Out”

  8. I felt this lovely poem wrap around my heart, Nancy … I’m just a sentimental guy …

    Whispering Flowers

    I went shopping this morning

    To buy her flowers

    For our anniversary day

    A bus trip to the local florist

    Then I boarded another bus to the cemetery

    My first time on a bus carrying flowers

    Bouquet in hand, on I hopped

    You could’ve heard a pin drop

    Over the silence, I heard solemn whispers

    The men on the bus courteously nodded

    And the ladies knowingly smiled

    Gratified, I dipped my cap in acknowledgement

    Then I started to sense the day’s emotions arise

    And with my honesty glowing, I felt proudly special

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