Quintain Poetry: The Collage Quintain Rhyme Scheme

 Collage Quintain Rhyme Scheme

Uses quotes from other sources to construct all or part of a quintain stanza or quintain sonnet sequence on a theme. It should include reference footnotes to the source of the quote or quotes. Example:

Examples: 221, 2175

In general, be more specific.
Absolutes squirm beneath realities.
Dogmatists are less useful than dogs.
Roundness is the Holy Shape.
The real "miracle" is cause and effect.

Pulling Onions
Over 1,000 Quips
One Liners, Epigrams
- Mike Garofalo, #221

The Bottom Line

"Caress the detail, the divine detail." 

- Vladimir Nabokov

“We think in generalities, but we live in details.”
- W. H. Auden

"The idea of one overbearing truth is exhausted."
- Thomas Mann

“A profound attention to the details of this world.”
- George Levine

“Cherish the minutes heureuses.”
- Charles Baudelaire

“The vast and unsuspected reality of small things." 
- Robert Nozick 

“We are better satisfied in particulars.”
- Wallace Stevens

"God is in the details."
- Mies Van Der Rohe

“Details are all there are.”
- Maezumi Roshi 

“Focus on small worlds of order.”
- Paul Valery

“No ideas but in things."
- William Carlos Williams

"In general, be more specific."
- Mike Garofalo 

"To study the self is to forget the self.
To forget the self is to be enlightened
By the ten thousand things."
- Zen Master Dogen

Quintains - Research

Quintains: 2,100+ Quintains (Free Online)

Quintain Poetry Rhyme Schemes

Syllable Counting for Quintain Poems

Quintain Sonnet Forms ( 5252, 555, 553 )

Quintains: Bibliography, Links, Research

Poetry - Research

Poetry by Michael P. Garofalo

“Yes — Michael P. Garofalo very actively experiments with quintains, both as a poet and as a researcher of five‑line poetic forms. His work includes writing thousands of quintains and maintaining extensive studies on the structure, history, and variations of quintain poetry.

Evidence from his published work

• He has published large collections of quintains in Bundled Up, Volumes 1-5, which contain over 2,500+ Quintain poems.
• He maintains a dedicated research project on quintain poetry, covering definitions, rhyme schemes, metrics, examples, and bibliographies.
• His site includes studies of multiple five‑line forms: quintains, pentastichs, cinquains, tankas, quintets, quintillas, gogyohkas, and more.

What “experimenting with quintains” means in his case

Garofalo’s experimentation includes:

• Writing large volumes of original five‑line poems
• Exploring diverse quintain sub‑forms across cultures
• Analyzing syllable counts, rhyme schemes, and structural variations
• Creating hybrid or playful forms such as “Onions” (his term for 5‑line poems)
• Documenting and comparing poetic traditions” – Ms. Ai, Microsoft Co-Pilot

The Quintain Poetry Website: Bundled Up

 

Bundled Up:

Quintains, Tankas, Pentastichs, and Onions

Quintain Poetry By Mike Garofalo

Bundled Up, Volume 1
Quintain Poems 1 - 1,000

Bundled Up, Volume 2
Quintain Poems 1,000 - 1,500

Bundled Up, Volume 3
Quintain Poems 1,500 - 2,000

Bundled Up, Volume 4
Quintain Poems 2,000 - 2,500

Bundled Up, Volume 5
Quintain Poems 2,500 - 3,000

 

Quintains - Research

Quintains: 2,100+ Quintains (Free Online)

Quintain Poetry Rhyme Schemes

Quintain Sonnet Forms ( 5252, 555, 553 )

Quintains: Bibliography, Links, Research

Poetry - Research

Poetry by Michael P. Garofalo

 

A Selection of Quintain Poems
By Michael P. Garofalo

book unopened

          hidden potential
covered insights
closed ideas
     Waiting...

between
two eternities
     my brief life
               is stretched
tight

My experiences
have not broken me;
     but, indeed,
     have bent and twisted
          my identity.

-  By Mike Garofalo

How to Live a Good Life

Quintain Poetry: Two Older Rhyme Schemes

Here are a two rhyme schemes for those writing quintain poems.

I do research into Quintain Poetry.

Spanish Quintain (Quintilla)

ABBAA

ABBAA Spanish Q #862, 1465, 1485, 1575, # 1666, 1800, 2211

Spanish Quintain Rhyme Scheme Prosody

A. Two aphorisms and bourbon on the rocks.
B. Two witticisms and whipped cream on the pie.
B. Two comparisons that catch the keen eye.
A. Two images that knock off your socks.
A. Two contrasts that leave some shocked.
- Mike Garofalo, # 1465

There are other rules and options for the
Quintilla form in the Spanish language.

English Quintain

ABABB

Examples:

ABABB English Q #726, 1197, 1498

English Quintain Rhyme Scheme Prosody

A. Colored flashes in the window pane
B. Christmas lights glowing red and green.
A. The homeless man has no name,
B. Sits in cold dark tent unseen,
B. Wearing a sock cap of red and green.
- Mike Garofalo, # 726 

English Quintain: "The English quintain follows a rhyme scheme of ABABB, in which the final two lines form a rhyming couplet. Though an English quintain requires an ABABB rhyming pattern, there is no established foot or measure." Example:

"In the golden lightning
Of the sunken sun,
O'er which clouds are bright'ning,
Thou dost float and run;
Like an unbodied joy whose race is just begun."
- Percy Bysshe Shelley

There are other rules and options for the
English Quintain form in the English language.

Bundled Up - Quintains: Volume 1, 1 - 1,000

Bundled Up - Quintains: Volume 2, 1,000 - 1,500

Bundled Up - Quintains: Volume 3, 1,500 - 2,000

Bundled Up - Quintains: Volume 4, 2,000 - 2,500

Bundled Up - Quintains: Volume 5, 2,500 - 3,000

 

Poetry by Michael P. Garofalo

Quintain Poetry Research

Quintain Poetry Rhyme Schemes

Quintain Sonnet Forms

Quintain Poetry: Four New Rhyme Schemes

Here are four rhyme schemes for those writing quintain poems.

I do research into Quintain Poetry.

Bellingham Quintain

AAAAA

Examples:

AAAAA Bellingham Q #1517, 1580, 1586, 1632, # 1643, 1697, 1814, 1908

Bellingham Quintain Rhyme Scheme Prosody

A. raking rust colored leaves
A. from under a sweet gum tree
A. tossed by a November breeze
A. scattered randomly---
A. my head drips sweat free
- Mike Garofalo, # 1517

Cayucos Quintain

AAABB 

Cayucos Q # 423, 765, 1243, 1459, 1759,  # 1807, 1810, 1892, 2142, 2508

Cayucos Quintain Rhyme Scheme Prosody

A Northern lights
A in the Pullman night
A an unusual sight—
B students gather for the colored show
B standing on muddied snow.
- Mike Garofalo

Coos Quintain

ABCBB

Examples:

ABCBB Coos Q #669, 1213, 1577, 1767, 1784, # 1984

Coos Quintain Rhyme Scheme Prosody

A. We don't really know Why
B. The Seasons come and go.
C. Always on schedule.
B. Ready for a Show!
B. They just Do It! You know!
- Mike Garofalo, # 1767

Mendocino Quintain

AABCC 

AABCC Mendocino Q # 69, 538, 1225, 1869, 1980,
        # 2267, 2491, 2743

Mendocino Quintain Prosody

A The Fates changed trucks in Crescent City
A Carried their Precious to Yachat's gritty
B Guarded the Sacred with scabbard knives.
C They ran, those Fates, chased by destinies,
C Fearing free will, trapped by realities.
- Mike Garofalo

Also called an Envelope Quintain, Pepperwood

Bundled Up - Quintains: Volume 1, 1 - 1,000

Bundled Up - Quintains: Volume 2, 1,000 - 1,500

Bundled Up - Quintains: Volume 3, 1,500 - 2,000

Bundled Up - Quintains: Volume 4, 2,000 - 2,500

Bundled Up - Quintains: Volume 5, 2,500 - 3,000

 

Quintain Poetry Research

Quintain Poetry Rhyme Schemes

Quintain Sonnet Forms

 

the scissors of my decisions

more to come ...

Recent Quintain Poems by Mike Garofalo

Quintain Poems by Mike Garofalo

Quintain Poetry Research

Pentastich Poetry

25 Steps and Beyond
The Collected Works of Mike Garofalo

 

740.

Reading Ted Berrigan's Sonnets
from 1964— a brainy Bore.
Muddled random tiny thoughts
absent of meaningfulness
scattered around on clumsy round floors.

Ideas popping like green popcorn
on the twisted streets of hip New York
pointless lines on pills of speed
running round dead orange olive trees
bizarre concoctions of decoying imagery.

In some ways silly FUN, like listening
to the confused chatter of a drugged insane
Prophet of impossible dry rain
mumbling inanities before the Cisco Kid.
Berrigan clearly not a clear Billy Collins.

 

741.

Sleepless in Sunset Suburbs

my mind working overtime:
a speeding bike without brakes
a rolling rock tumbling down
a super-alert consciousness drained
a can't-quit-motor speeding on

 

742.

Iran Bombed into Itself

Listening to the News
about the war in Iran:
Israel demolished the
Shi'a Regime's military, the
USA bombed it's nuclear sites.

I'm not upset to see Iranian
proxies and the Iranian Shi'a
Regime dismantled. Proxy
terrorists like Hamas, Hezbollah,
Levant, Baathists, [Sunni-Isis-Al-Qaeda]

Have openly stated their aims
to terrorize and destroy
Israel, the USA, and other Nations.
Good Riddance!
Likewise, our own Christian Nationalists

Seek to Rule us Secular Woke Folks.
But we don't need or want
More religious zealots In Charge;
Favoring a separation of Church and State,
Religions are often a violent disgrace.

700.

Common Sense
often not so common
and makes no sense—
the least common denominator
of stupidity simplified

    Used to justify
magically the dumbest
meanest cruelest acts
useless false opinions
selfish stupidity and lies

    Worshiped by self-righteous
solipsists bereft of any sense
of a real world bigger than 'I'.
Full of 'truths' empty of facts,
    willing to Kill to keep
their Fictions alive.

 

Tintern Abbey by William Wordsworth

 

William Wordsworth

Tintern Abbey
Lines Written a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey, on
Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour, July 13, 1798

Excerpt:

"The coarser pleasures of my boyish days,
And their glad animal movements all gone by,
To me was all in all. – I cannot paint
What then I was.
The sounding cataract
Haunted me like a passion: the tall rock,
The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood,
Their colors and their forms, were then to me
An appetite: a feeling and a love,
That had no need of a remoter charm,
By thought supplied, or any interest
Unborrowed from the eye. –  That time is past,
And all its aching joys are now no more,
And all its dizzy raptures. Not for this
Faint I, nor mourn nor murmur: other gifts
Have followed, for such loss, I would believe,
Abundant recompence.
For I have learned
To look on nature, not as in the hour
Of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes
The still, sad music of humanity,
Not harsh nor grating, though of ample power
To chasten and subdue. And I have felt
A presence that disturbs me with the joy
Of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime
Of something far more deeply interfused,
Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns,
And the round ocean, and the living air,
And the blue sky, and in the mind of man,
A motion and a spirit, that impels
All thinking things, all objects of all thought,
And rolls through all things. Therefore am I still
A lover of the meadows and the woods,
And mountains; and of all that we behold
From this green earth; of all the mighty world
Of eye and ear, both what they half-create,
And what perceive; well pleased to recognize
In nature and the language of the sense,
The anchor of my purest thoughts, the nurse,
The guide, the guardian of my heart, and soul
Of all my moral being.
Nor, perchance,
If I were not thus taught, should I the more
Suffer my genial spirits to decay:
For thou art with me, here, upon the banks
Of this fair river; thou, my dearest Friend,
My dear, dear Friend, and in thy voice I catch
The language of my former heart, and read
My former pleasures in the shooting lights
Of thy wild eyes."

Message from the Vessel in a Dream: A Review

Message from the Vessel in a Dream. By Christopher Luna. First Flowstone Press Edition, 2018, 130 pages. Printed Matter Vancouver VSCL.

Amazon Review by Mike Garofalo:

This is a fine collection of poems authored by Christopher Luna. His poems are mostly in free verse, hip, Beat style, and contemporary. His justified anger about contemporary injustices and oppression are told in his verses. Mr. Luna’s command of creative Beat Style poetic techniques is impressive. He uses prose narratives, quotations, asides, conversational block poems, italic formatted comments on poets and poetry, references to books and articles, abstract and philosophical ruminations at times, and he provides fresh insights. Most of his carefully crafted poems fit on one page. He is frank and open about sexuality, friendships, drugs, parties, contemporary issues, and alternative lifestyles. His sophisticated bluntness and direct manner are invigorating. His poems are mostly about people, not places or nature. I found his Collage Poems technique (Fecund Labyrinth, pp.61-111) very interesting; and his interest in the Investigative Poetry techniques from Ed Sanders to be stimulating.

I find his poetic messages robust, earthy, life loving, and free, for example: “when awake/ each moment/ is a glorious/ potentially transformative/ high energy, construct/that opens slowly, deliberately/ like the lotus petals/ of a woman’s vulva/ as we stand in awe/ scribbling furiously/ hoping to get it all down/ needing to get it right, dammit.” p.37

I have also purchased two of his edited anthologies: Ghost Town Poetry, Open Mic: Volumes 2 and 3; reviewed elsewhere. Also, Good Reads!

I prefer his other good collage art works rather than the astronaut one used on the cover of this engaging book. But, never judge a book by its cover.

The book provides a detailed autobiography and information about other "Rebel Angel" post-modern poets who have influenced him: Allen Ginsberg, Niki Giovanni, Amiri Baraka, Anne Waldman, Ed Sanders, and Diane di Prima." Mr. Luna is an active leader of poetry Open Mic sessions, a literary coach, an editor, a collage artist, film critic, researcher, jazz musician, and social activist in the City of Vancouver, Washington State. He is an “Outsider,” with an MFA from the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics from Naropa University in 1999. He was the Poet Laureate in Vancouver from 2013-2017.

A book deep enough for rereading!

Ghost Town Poetry: Cover to Cover Books, 2004-2010: An Anthology of Poems from the Ghost Town Open Mic Series. Edited by Christopher J. Juna and Toni Partington. 2011, 134 pages. VSCL.

Ghost Town Poetry: Volume Two, 2004-2014. Edited by Christopher Luna and Toni Partington. Cover to Cover Books, Printed Matter Vancouver, WA, 2014, 98 pages. FVRL.

Ghost Town Poetry Open Mic: Volume Three, 2004-2024. Edited by Christopher Luna, Toni Lumbrazo Luna, and Morgan Paige. Printed Matter, Vancouver WA, 2024. 149 pages. Purchased at Birdhouse Books in Vancouver, WA. VSCL. 

Amazon Review by Mike Garofalo:

I was first made aware of this interesting collection when I read a copy of the book borrowed from the Fort Vancouver Regional Library. I found the books artwork, the good poems, and the collage by Christopher Luna to be appealing.

The introduction by Mr. Luna was highly informative and would be useful for anyone trying to establish a local Open Mic poetry reading series in a community. Clark County has over a half million residents, so the nearby fan base of poetry lovers is considerable in the Vancouver, Washington State area where I live. Many interesting people shared their experience, reflections, and poetic compositions.

The poems are challenging, contemporary, hip, inclusive, liberal, woke, and lively. Hearing them read by the authors to the Vancouver Open Mic crowd must have been delightful and thought-provoking.

Although I have lived in Vancouver since 2017, I have never attended an Open Mic session and have not yet met Mr. Luna. I intend to attend my first Open Mic session in Vancouver in April of 2025.

This anthology was edited by Christopher Luna and Toni Partington in 2014.

After reading this book, I purchased “message from the vessel in a dream” authored by Mr. Luna. A very worthwhile purchase for me; reviewed elsewhere. Also, at the local Birdhouse Books bookstore, I purchased a new copy of “Ghost Town Poetry Open Mic: Volume Three, 2004-2024, edited by Chris Luna, Toni Lumbrazo Luna, and Morgan Paige, $20.00.

At 98 pages, this is the smallest chapbook of the three Open Mic anthologies. A very good bargain for a paperback on Amazon.

Book Reviews by Mike Garofalo

Quintains: Five Line Poems

"A quintain (also known as a quintet) is any poetic form or stanza that contains five lines. Quintain poems can contain any line length or meter."

Master Class on Quintains

8 Types of Quintains

"There are many variations of the quintain that have developed over the centuries, some of which are specific to different cultures. Here are the most common types of quintains:

1. 1. Cinquain: A cinquain is a poem or five-line stanza with a rigid syllable count for each line. This modern form was invented by American poet Adelaide Crapsey. The first line contains two syllables, the second line contains four, the third line contains six, the fourth line contains eight, and the last line contains two.
2. 2. English quintain: The English quintain follows a rhyme scheme of ABABB, in which the final two lines form a rhyming couplet. Though an English quintain requires an ABABB rhyming pattern, there is no established foot or measure.
3. 3. Limerick: The limerick follows a rhyming scheme of AABBA. The “A” lines are composed using iambic tetrameter, while the “B” lines are written in iambic trimeter. Limericks usually stand alone as a five-line poem and often contain bawdy or humorous subject matter. Nineteenth-century English poet Edward Lear, whose works include the famous limerick “There Was Once an Old Man with a Beard,” popularized this form.
4. 4. Spanish Quintain: The Spanish quintain (also known as the quintilla) is a type of five-line poetry that is eight syllables in length, each line written in iambic tetrameter. It usually follows a rhyme scheme of ABBAA or AABBA, but this five-line poetry form can follow any rhyme scheme (including ABAAB), as long as no more than two consecutive lines rhyme at a time.
5. 5. Pentastich: A pentastich is a free verse or blank verse form of quintain poetry. Each five-line stanza contains no rhyme or meter.
6. 6. Sicilian quintain: The Sicilian quintain employs an ABABA rhyme sequence. Though the original form of the Sicilian quintain had no specific form or meter, it is now common for it to be written iambic pentameter. In the Shakespearean sonnet “Sonnet 99,” the author’s first stanza is a Sicilian quintain, followed by two four-line stanzas (quatrains).
7. 7. Tanka: The tanka is a Japanese form of quintain poetry. Much like a haiku, the tanka has particular syllable requirements. In Japanese, the tanka is written as one unbroken line consisting of 31 syllables, but when it is converted into English poetry, it is usually broken up into five lines. In this case, the first and third lines contain five syllables, while the second, fourth, and fifth lines contain seven syllables.
8. 8. Envelope quintet: An envelope quintet is a five-line verse in which the inner lines are enclosed by the rhyming outer lines. The rhyme scheme may look like ABCBA, AABAA, or ABBBA (in which the middle lines form a rhyming tercet)."
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Quintains and Tanka: Bundled Up
By Mike Garofalo

25 Steps and Beyond: Collected Works
Poetry, Indexes, Anthologies, Research
By Michael P. Garofalo

Hillcrest by Edward Arlington Robinson

Hillcrest

By Edward Arlington Robinson

1916

(To Mrs. Edward MacDowell)


No sound of any storm that shakes  
Old island walls with older seas  
Comes here where now September makes  
An island in a sea of trees.  
 
Between the sunlight and the shade
A man may learn till he forgets  
The roaring of a world remade,  
And all his ruins and regrets;  
 
And if he still remembers here  
Poor fights he may have won or lost,—
If he be ridden with the fear  
Of what some other fight may cost,—  
 
If, eager to confuse too soon,  
What he has known with what may be,  
He reads a planet out of tune
For cause of his jarred harmony,—  
 
If here he venture to unroll  
His index of adagios,  
And he be given to console  
Humanity with what he knows,—
 
He may by contemplation learn  
A little more than what he knew,  
And even see great oaks return  
To acorns out of which they grew.  
 
He may, if he but listen well,
Through twilight and the silence here,  
Be told what there are none may tell  
To vanity’s impatient ear;  
 
And he may never dare again  
Say what awaits him, or be sure
What sunlit labyrinth of pain  
He may not enter and endure.  
 
Who knows to-day from yesterday  
May learn to count no thing too strange:  
Love builds of what Time takes away,
Till Death itself is less than Change.  
 
Who sees enough in his duress  
May go as far as dreams have gone;  
Who sees a little may do less  
Than many who are blind have done;
 
Who sees unchastened here the soul
Triumphant has no other sight
Than has a child who sees the whole
World radiant with his own delight.
 
Far journeys and hard wandering
Await him in whose crude surmise
Peace, like a mask, hides everything
That is and has been from his eyes;
 
And all his wisdom is unfound,
Or like a web that error weaves
On airy looms that have a sound
No louder now than falling leaves.

25 Steps and Beyond: Collected Works
Poetry, Indexes, Anthologies, Research
By Michael P. Garofalo

Tanka Poetry - Quintains
By Mike Garofalo

25 Steps and Beyond: The Collected Works of Mike Garofalo

25 Steps and Beyond:
The Collected Works

By Mike Garofalo

Poetry, Anthologies, Indexes
Studies, Blog, Guides, Travel
Ethics, Art, Koans, Spirituality

 

US Highway 101 and Hwy 1

US Highway 99 and Interstate 5

Cuttings: Tercets, Haiku, Epigrams

The Gushen Grove Sonnets

Stepping Over Epiphanies

Bundled Up: Tanka Poems

Above the Fog

Daodejing: Indexes, Concordance, Anthology

A Fork in the Crypto Road

727 Riddles, Jokes, Brain Teasers

The Spirit of Gardening

Docu-Poem

Haiku - North Sacramento Valley

Flowers in the Sky

Biography: Mike Garofalo

At the Edges of the West, Volume 1

At the Edges of the Fertile West, Volume 2

Exhibits of TextArt

The Wreck Ahead Comes Into View

Cloud Hands Blog

How to Live a Good Life

Stuck in Some Concrete Poetry

The Raven Broke Open the Magical Clam

Pulling Onions: 1,000 One Liners

Four Days at Grayland Beach

Meetings with Master Chang San Feng

25 Steps and Beyond Anthology

Biography: Mike Garofalo

One Short of a Baker's Dozen

More Poetry by Mike Garofalo

Poetry Research

Interstate 5 and Hwy 99

Five Senses

Memories of Pacific Coast Places

One Old Daoist Druid's Final Journey

Uncle Mike's Cellphone Poetry Series

Fireplace Records Koan Collection

Brief Poems and Haiku

Epigrams, Quips, Sayings: 1,000 One Liners

Tao Te Ching: Concordance, Anthology

Zen Buddhist Koans: Research, Indexes

Blooming Onions Pulled from the Mind-Ground

Zen Poetry

Virtues and the Good Life

Villanelle Form Poems

Sonnet Form Studies

Biography: Mike Garofalo

Monthly Observations and Poetry

Green Way Research Index

Body-Mind-Somatics Arts

Tai Chi Chuan and Qigong

Neo-Pagan Spirituality Studies

Tanka Poetry

Travel Poetry: CA, OR, WA, BC

Flowers

Meditations of a Gardener

Free Verse Poetry

Cuttings: Haiku and Tercets (1998-2016)

Transitions: Haiku and Tercets (2017-2024)

Stopping to See: Haiku and Tercets (2025-)

A Gift of Dried Garlic Flowers

Dialogues in the Renga Style

Fourfold Ways: Quatrains

Two Levels: Haibun Poetry

Tercets, Haiku, Epigrams

Doggerel Verse

Prose Poems

In Progress: Hands On

March Cuttings

 

the scissors of my decisions

more to come ...

 

 

Mike Garofalo lives in Vancouver, Washington,
Orchards & Five Corners Neighborhoods
Northeast Clark County.

He is available for public readings or gigs
in Vancouver, Portland, south to Salem,
and north to Olympia.

He writes, reads and studies Poetry.
His hobbies include: gardening,
web publishing, walking adventures,
harmonica playing, yurt camping,
reading, playing, studying, blogging,
Taijiquan, writing, string figures,
exploring the Northwest USA.,
research studies and local trips.

He has been web publishing since
1998 at Green Way Research.

Mike is 80 years of age.
He has a decent, pleasant, and
friendly speaking voice.
He is a big tall elderly gent.

Best to send him email to:
    mpgarofalobooks@gmail.com

 

 

    

 

 

TextArt and Concrete Poetry

At the Edges of the West, Volume 1
Highway 101 and Hwy 1

25 Steps and Beyond: Collected Works

 

This document was last edited, revised,
reformatted, added to, relinked,
changed, improved, or modified
by Mike Garofalo
on March 27, 2025.

 

Pacific Beach State Park, WA, Yurt Camping Trip: Day 1

 Pacific Beach State Park, Washington, Yurt Camping Trip, Day 1

Yurt Camping, March 10, 11, 12, 13 in 2025

Yurt Camping in the Pacific Northwest
Tips, Information, Locations, Experiences
Oregon and Washington
Off Season Camping
By Michael P. Garofalo

Drive from Vancouver to Longview, Centralia,
Olympia, Aberdeen, Pacific Beach.

In Olympia, I plan to shop at the Browser's Bookshop, Half-Price Bookstore, and eat lunch at the Olympia Oyster House, and drive around the Capitol Building and Budd Inlet parks.

I purchased and studied a new book of poems by Elizabeth Bishop during the four days of this yurt camping trip to Pacific Beach State Park in Grays Harbor County, Southwestern Washington.

Poems. By Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979). Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux, 2011, 352 pages. Paperback, VSCL. 

Living simply on the inheritance from her father, she travelled and lived in many countries. She wrote and translated in English and Spanish.

I read her poems during this Copolis River-Beach camping trip. Indoors out of the steady rain day and night, and indoors through the long outdoor winter darkness of the night.

My favorite poems by Ms. Bishop:
Objects and Apparitions 1976
artifacts in shoeboxes of memories
One Art 1976
“The art of losing isn’t hard to master.”

Explore Taholah, Pacific Beach, Seabrook,
Moclips, Quinault River, Lake Quinault,
Kalaloch Beach, Ruby Beach

I will post comments to this blog depending upon the availability of Internet service. Probably, after I return on March 13th.

Internet Photographs: