Brian Strand Poet Lanterne

LITERALLY LANTERNES

A lanterne is a five line quintain verse shaped like a Japanese lantern with a syllabic pattern of one, two, three, four, one.Each line able to stand on its own, and the poem may or may not have a title which sometimes forms an integral part as a 6th line


#1
Black,
yellow,
brown, or white--
partitions skin
deep.

#2 WATER MEADOWS

rush
and sedge
hide shady
ponds--teeming
with
life

#3

by
the stream
so shallow,
weeps a willow
tree.

#4 DAYSTAR

dawn
tinges
the bleak sky--
hope enlightens
all

#5

a
sea mist
rolls inshore---
daydreams deluge
me

#6 BIRDSONG

lost
in the
soft mist of
a September
dawn

#7 EQUINOX

Rain
droped leaves,
spotted gold--
scatter in the
wind

#8 MONA LISA

Her
gaze and
smile followed
his every
step

#9

bells
tolling
on the wind--
old memories
die

#10
a
dry rock--
out of the
white water of
life

#11 HIGH RISE
Thin
spires
in the breeze---
tasselled teasels
touch

Lanterne #12

Faint
May breeze----
in the trees
ripples shaded
green

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