cinquain Winning!

Winning

Now
Once again
On the ball field
So now we compete
to hold up the trophy

Cinquain

I think I must have done something strange when I fixed my cinquain. It just disappeared when I tried to publish it. I’ll just try it again.

Thinking
endlessly
about emptiness
every day of my life
to try to understand the absence of substance
until I cannot escape the incomprehensible nothingness.

Cinquain

Singing
Freely
In delight
Every morning
To hail the sun
As the birds trill their harmony

sleeping cinquain

Sleeping
Soundly
In my bed
One more minute
To enjoy myself
Meanwhile, the alarm...

Cinquain

Dreaming
Solely
By time's clock
All lonely night
To fix the day's dark
When sleep can heal reality

cinquain on the sun

Toman el sol (to take in the sun)

sleepily
in the heat
the May afternoons
give rise to nodding heads
that bask in the parting clouds

Cinquain on Reflecting

ok so here's what I came up with..

Reflecting
wistfully
on the past
with you
to hold on
because you are gone

the requisite breakup cinquain

Ok this really is harder than it looks. Let me know if I've got it right. I tried to go in the order the book suggested: adverb, prep phr, noun phrase, verb phrase, clause.

Crying
quietly
over you
every night
to prove that I'm hurt too
even though it was me who insisted on leaving.

The Importance of Being Grammatical

I interviewed a professor in the English Department. She believed grammar is a rudimentary necessity for she and her colleagues. Her main stress was the ability for people in her profession to create complex ideas in clear language. She acknowledged the pressures which are put on a professor during publishing. She also said the better one gets at writing, the harder it becomes. She spoke about the importance of anyone’s writing. She truly believes when a person hands in a paper, letter, or statement, it is an extension of that person. She also reflected on student writing. She noted how impressed she is when students can express complex thought with clarity. She stresses that students should not write above their abilities. Overall, she believes the written word to be extremely powerful.
On a lighter note, the professor told a personal story. When she was in high school, she dated a boy in college. They had a correspondence through letters that whole year. Yet when he came back in the summer she broke up with him. His grammar skills and writing capabilities were simply too much for her to handle. This shows the power of language, especially when she stated, "He was very cute too, but I just couldn’t do it."