Roses come in many exquisite colors. I love roses. My adoration for them has prompted the creation of this Cinquain poem. I always tell students who are writing poetry for the first time, to start their poetic journey with the Cinquain. This simple form was developed by the American poet, Adelaide Crapsey. She based her Cinquain style on the Japanese Haiku. Her poems were published post humorously in 1915. She died at the age of thirty-five from tuberculosis. She left to the poetic world this lasting legacy, the Cinquain. It is made up of twenty-two words and is purely syllabic unrhymed lines, the building blocks for poets after her to carry her unique creation to higher heights of complexity.

The Adelaide Crapsey recipe for the Cinquain is simply this:

Line 1, two syllables
Line 2, four syllables
Line 3, six syllables
Line 4, eight syllables
Line 5, two syllables