Write a Cinquain.

Write a cinquain, a poem in which each line contains the following number of syllables:
2
4
6
8
2

Write a butterfly cinquain:
2
4
6
8
2
8
6
4

For a variation on this form, use number of words per line instead of syllables.

Moment,
sudden light flash,
digits on a screen alive
holding within: places, faces, moments
past years.

Without

your voice, I must

remember what you love,

what you thought of the rain falling,

often.

What you do in the long hours

will be stories you tell

in the evening

return.