Poem: "Glas"
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ysabetwordsmithThis was prompted and sponsored by fuzzyred. It belongs to the Shiv thread of the Polychrome Heroics series.
"Glas"
-- a cinquain
is his
favorite color --
blue-green-silver-gray-white --
beautiful and dangerous like
the sea.
* * *
Notes:
A cinquain is a poem of 5 lines. Individual variations may or may not add additional parameters.
Glas is a quintessentially Celtic term that can mean blue, green, gray, or silver -- or any combination of those colors. It has mixed connotations of something beautiful but changeable and potentially perilous. This makes a lot more sense if you know that it actually means "sea-colored." Here's a discussion of the same word borrowed into Welsh. The closest English translation is "hazel."
fuzzyred. It belongs to the Shiv thread of the Polychrome Heroics series. "Glas"
-- a cinquain
is his
favorite color --
blue-green-silver-gray-white --
beautiful and dangerous like
the sea.
* * *
Notes:
A cinquain is a poem of 5 lines. Individual variations may or may not add additional parameters.
Glas is a quintessentially Celtic term that can mean blue, green, gray, or silver -- or any combination of those colors. It has mixed connotations of something beautiful but changeable and potentially perilous. This makes a lot more sense if you know that it actually means "sea-colored." Here's a discussion of the same word borrowed into Welsh. The closest English translation is "hazel."
