Seasonal Vertigo

Tilt-
             ed
head like a bird
with goodbye in its eyes,
summer is about to leave us
behind.

Ahead,
autumn’s about to glow;
a hello in its eyes.
I feel the world
tilt-
              ing.

Kim M. Russell, 4th September 2025

Image by Graham Smith on Unsplash

I can’t believe it’s Thursday already and, at the dVerse Poets Pub, we are Meeting the Bar with Björn and cinquains.

Björn says that, when he started to write poetry, one of his go-to forms was the (American) cinquain, because it fitted well into twitter when it was only 140 characters.

Created by Adelaide Crapsey, the cinquain is a five-line poem based on a syllable count of 2-4-6-8-2, but with plenty of variations. We dVerse poets have written them before. They can be written as a single stanza, reversed or mirror.

44 thoughts on “Seasonal Vertigo”

  8. Ha, I too have written on the changing season – though it’s Spring which is trying to happen here. (Autumn is my favourite season too, but Spring can be OK when it stops being flighty.)

    That bird pic is so perfect for this poem, it makes me wonder if you found it first and then wrote the poem inspired by it. 😀

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