• What is lost in translating a poetic form from a symbolic alphabet to a phonetic one?
  • Does a shorter poem demand more attention from its reader?
Fascinated with translating Haiku and Tanka, American poet Adelaide Crapsy, invented the Cinquain form. Her poems were published in 1915, a year after her death. She was 37.

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  • Greenhill4/24/2009

    Way too cool!

  • Walton S. Tissot4/17/2009

    Cool. I like these little poems. :)

  • Khara House4/17/2009

    very nicely done! :)

  • samaira4/17/2009

    Great going.

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