11 JUNE 1983, Page 36

Comp etition

No. 1273: Cinquain

Set by Jaspistos: A cinquain (America's answer to the haiku) is a five-line stanza, the lines having respectively two, four, six eight and two syllables. You are invited to write one under any of these titles: 'Susanna and the Elders', 'Triad', `Niagara', 'The Warning'. Entries to 'Competition No. 1273' by 24 June.