Cinquain · Autumn
Letting Go (a Crapsey Cinquain)
Dusk falls
the maples let
their last gold go without
complaint — how lightly they release
their year
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Quick facts
- Poem
- Letting Go (a Crapsey Cinquain)
- Poet
- The QuillOak Editors
- Length
- 5 lines
- Form
- Cinquain, Short Poems
- Themes
- Autumn, Nature, Peace, Short
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- The QuillOak Editorstoday
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- QuillOak originalLetting Go (a Crapsey Cinquain), authored for QuillOak by The Quillery
- Display decision
- Full text · United States · reviewed 2026-07-18
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- SHA-256 4eb941e3bc68fc52…
- Editorial handling
- Whitespace and stanza breaks normalized for web display; no material wording change recorded.
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