Cinquain Creations from Audience at Gibson's Bookstore Reading

 

To close the debut reading from Battle of Silicon Valley at Daybreak this past Tuesday, I walked the audience through the creation of their own 1-minute poem about social media using a form called a cinquain. 

A standard cinquain normally involves a 5-lined poem, Line #1 containing one stress; Line #2 containing two stresses; Line #3 containing three stresses...you get the idea.) 

I modified the form for the sake of the event such that Line #1 contains one word; Line #2 contains two words, etc. I gave line-by-line prompts: for instance, specifying that the third line consist of a prepositional phrase, the fourth line use a question. 

Check out the marvelous, modified cinquain created by audience members!

Mark

Black, blue

To mark share

For whom the bell...

Tolls, clangs,, peals, rings, cracks

-John Lindberg

Different 

Red clicking

On every post, hearts scrolling

"What's your handle?"

A lonely phone case

No face recognition, No apps to distract, No sore thumbs, Not for mev

-Sophie Rose Riopel, teen editor at Under the Madness Magazine

Likes

Blue bouncing

For $3

Are you in this?

Yes, Yes, No, Yes, No

- Jenn Hill (creator of the image on the cover of Battle of Silicon Valley at Daybreak)

Hashtags

Cyan paints

Of simple lies

What is the point?

Impress, Celebrate, Grieve. Befriend, Compare.

-Shirley Phillips