Description:

This cinquain sequence of two hundred and twelve poems, May Dazed, was written during May 2005 as a collaborative work by fourteen poets of the CinquainPoets online writing group. The sequence, in which each cinquain begins with the last line of the preceding cinquain, goes through several discernible movements as it proceeds. The final cinquain ends with a line identical to the first line of the sequence. May Dazed is an extraordinary work in this great American poetic form. CinquainPoets brings together poets interested in the American Cinquain form, as developed by the Imagist poet, Adelaide Crapsey. Simply, a cinquain is a five line poem with a syllable pattern of 2-4-6-8-2. Currently with 98 members around the world, the CinquainPoets group includes some of the finest poets who are writing in cinquains today.