Two challenges

I am mixing Laurie's Friday challenge with Marian's  Weekend Mini challenge.
Laurie asked us to write about the term, Phantasmagoric!

(Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia) 1. Pertaining or relating to a phantasmagoria; of the nature of phantasmagoria; illusive; unreal.

(Wiktionary) 1. adj. Characterized by or pertaining to rapid changes in light intensity and colour. 2. adj. Characterized by or pertaining to a dream-like blurring of real and imaginary elements.

(WordNet 3.0) 1. adj. characterized by fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtaposition


Marian asked us to write a Cinquain.  The cinquain poem, while having the feel and style of Japanese forms like haiku and tanka, was created by American poet Adelaide Crapsey (1878-1914).

Guidelines are:
  
 The cinquain is a five-line poem with the following characteristics, in decreasing order of importance:

1. Strict syllable count: 2-4-6-8-2
2. Strong title (important with such a tight poem)
3. Strong imagery (perhaps, even, an image per line)
4. Nature imagery, as in haiku or tanka (though I certainly vary from this!)
5. Juxtaposition or a clever “turn” at the end
6. Accented stress pattern (1-2-3-4-1) and initial capitalization were both used routinely by Crapsey (and are both present in her poems above) but have been all but abandoned in modern cinquain writing. I have not really focused on meter, but may make that my focus this weekend.

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earthworms  

find a green home

I need a good manny petty

white roots show at six feet below

up yours  

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I spy clouds

birds shadow my thoughts

wish for eco friendly view

 you shouldn't piss off Mother Nature

Uranus

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finger

golden eyes you

 all that glitters is not

born with a silver spoon in mouth

rusted

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a flame

she looks like a moth

no that is buttermilk

no she is a rare grey-blue bloodhound breed

bug off