Butterfly flutter by! I love this play on words for some reason.. and today’s featured poetic form for Poetic Sundays is called the Butterfly Cinquain. Read on to learn why and what of this form. Plus, I am celebrating my birthday today..

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Poetic Sundays: Fluttering Words With the Butterfly Cinquain

Today is literally the middle of the year. July 2nd splits the year into two equal halves with 182 days on either side of it (except of course, during a leap year when the 1st and 2nd share the honors). With that in mind, as well as having recently discovered the Butterfly House in Pacific Grove, I decided to go about fluttering words with the Butterfly Cinquain poetic form where one 2-syllable line splits the poem into two halves with 4 lines on either side.

What is the Butterfly Cinquain Poetic Form?

First, the butterfly cinquain is not a cinquain at all. A cinquain by itself refers simply (and originally) to a five-line poem. The Butterfly Cinquain actually has nine lines with a central line serving as the fifth and first lines of two mirroring Crapsey Cinquains (another cinquain form). The structure of the butterfly cinquain resembles the shape of a butterfly, hence the name.

The Butterfly Cinquain’s Poetic Form’s Characteristics

So the Butterfly Cinquain’s elements are that at its most basic, it is:

• a nine-line poem
• syllabic: with a syllabic count of 2/4/6/8/2/8/6/4/2 across the lines
• unrhymed
• centered to give the butterfly shape it is named after
• title optional

References, h/t, and Further Reading:

• Poets Collective – butterfly cinquain
• Poetic Sundays: The Cleave Cuts Through in the Middle?
• Poetic Sundays: Unusual? No, Just ‘Oddquain’

My Butterfly Cinquain Attempt

Birthdays
What do they do?
Do they age us? Do they?
Do they make us a bit wiser?
Hope so!
Hoping for a bit more wisdom,
for aging gracefully
with each coming
birthday!
~ Vidya @ LadyInReadWrites

Recently

At Home and On My Blog

It has been a hot few days and hopefully slowly cooling down in the coming week. So we have mostly been indoors with the exception of going to the flea market which happens once in a month nearby (we only recently went there for the first time ever.. and hadn’t been there the last couple of months so simply because trip there).

While we hoped to do something more, like a trip to the beach today, the weather is most likely prompting everyone to visit there. We decided we would rather stay home than brave crazy traffic in sweltering heat. So here is to a home-stay-quiet-birthday…

So for recently on my blog, here are the posts since the last Scribblings:

• Anxious People Book + Wonderful Stamps Too
• 5 Things to do in 5 Minutes to Make Our Day Better
• Looking Forward to Great Reads and Sunny Summers
• Sunday Scribblings #150: A Beatles Inspired Poetic Journey and More

Upcoming

On My Blog & Homefront

Another month, another UBC, so this means a post everyday here on my blog.

This Week’s Celebrations

The Literary and Close-to-it Celebrations

• Literary Birthdays this week: July 3rd celebrates the birthdays of Dave Barry, Franz Kafka, Rohinton Mistry, and Matt Haig; Nathaniel Hawthorne’s is on the 4th; July 5th celebrates Bill Watterson; Hilary Mantel and Bessie Head on the 6th of July; Jeff VanderMeer, Kathy Reichs, V. E. Schwab on July 7th; followed by Erin Morgenstern and Jean de la Fontaine on the 8th; Dean Koontz and Barbara Cartland’s birthdays fall on the 9th of July
• The 4th is Alice in Wonderland Day
• Followed by Mechanical Pencil Day on the 5th of July

Foodie Celebrations

• The 3rd is National Chocolate Wafer Day and National Eat Your Beans Day
• July 4th observes Sidewalk Egg Frying Day 🙂 as well as Jackfruit Day
• It is National Apple Turnover Day and National Graham Crackers Day on July 5th
• And I am sure I will enjoy National Strawberry Sundae Day and National Macaroni Day on the 7th of July. In addition, it is also World Chocolate Day, making it the cherry on top of that sundae!
• Next up is National Chocolate with Almonds Day as well as National Blueberry Day on the 8th. More deliciousness accompanies this for it is also National Freezer Pop Day and National Ice Cream Sundae Day
• Followed by National Sugar Cookie Day on the 9th

Other Celebrations

• It is National Compliment Your Mirror Day on the 3rd of July (Don’t you love how this celebration is worded?). The 3rd is also StartTheConversation Day
• The 4th of July is of course Independence Day here in the US.
• Enjoy a fun Spongebob inspired holiday on the 5th with Work Without Your Hands Day! Apparently, Spongebob and gang celebrate quirky holidays as well on the series.
• Another unusual holiday is up next on July 6th with International Kissing Day!
• And hopefully, dad and daughter at home can be inspired to take a walk together on July 7th, which is National Father Daughter Take a Walk Day! Plus it is also National Dora Day (a favorite for my daughter when she was younger)
• The 7th of July also happens to be Global Forgiveness Day and International Peace & Love Day as well as Tell the Truth Day
• July 8th asks you to bring your inner child out with Be a Kid Again Day
• and the week ends with Barn Day and Call of the Horizon Day on July 9th

Wrapping up my Sunday Scribblings

So dear reader, this was it for this post. As always, appreciate and totally welcome your thoughts, comments, and suggestions on these scribblings on Sunday! And which of these days in this wonderful week do you plan to celebrate?

Linking this to the Sunday Post over at the Caffeinated Reviewer and the Sunday Salon. And 👍🏻, also to the Ultimate Blogging Challenge throughout this month.