Shadows (cinquain)

"Near my home there is a bridge, the water's ever cold, there's flowers in abundance and mosses on the stones. The trees roof overhead, reaching, grasping, holding hands, the sun glistens on th..."

"T'was spring when I was born, and to the sky did reach, I grew so tall and strong, before I ever knew it, spring had been and gone. Summer then did follow, a young girl I did meet, and though we were..."

""You are always smiling, always happy", people say, "Your happiness is catching, spreading joy throughout the day." But they don't see the tears I hide, I've kept them locked away, my sadness and my ..."

"If I was a better man, a stronger man and wise, if I was the greatest man the only man in your eyes, could you find it in your heart to hold me in your arms, to tell me that you love me and we would n..."

"He seems so sad of stories told, of all the evil he beholds, but in his eyes, if you look you'll see, he has a gift for you and me, he has knowledge, understanding too, a thousand years he has been th..."

"A Dragons Pride is hard to hide for wisdom is within. A thousand years he has been through and this just to begin. he's sailed through the winds of time upon a golden wing. The children gather ev..."