Adelaide Crapsey
On
October 8, 1914
Adelaide Crapsey the
Inventor of American Cinquain
Passed away

(Jade 10/2014)
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Because October 8th, 2014 is the anniversary of her death
and the eclipse of the Moon , here is her cinquain entitled:

MOON-SHADOWS

Still as
On windless nights
The moon-cast shadows are,
So still will be my heart when I
Am dead.

~Adelaide Crapsey~ 09/09/1878 – 10/08/1914

October 8, 2014
Lunar eclipse is when the moon appears darkened as
it passes into the earth's shadow. Eerily forboding!

Here is a link to the Poet Foundation and her story. She was published posthumously after her untimely death. The cinquain above was published one year after her death, in 1915.