Something's Jumping In The Pumpkin Patch
Sneaking through the graveyard
in the dead of night
to a hidden garden
in full moonlight
you want to be careful better beware
the fiery eyes
of the scarecrow's stare
if the spell is broken
you open Pandora's Box
and it's lights out
for the jack-o-lanterns
they're in for a nasty shock
you have to be careful better beware
the Halloween screams
of your worst nightmare
'cause something's jumping in
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Categories:
lanterns, fun, grave, halloween, scary,
Form: Rhyme
Lanterns
Used in festivals as lighting the way for the souls of our ancestors
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Categories:
lanterns, family,
Form: Monoku
Sky Lanterns
Hope, wish, and pray
we all live and let live
like the lanterns in the sky
each one spreading light
not disturbing
or
trying to destroy the other one
no unhealthy competition
no ego problems
no wish to dominate
discriminate
manipulate
others
just
keeping our individuality intact
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Categories:
lanterns, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
ethereal lanterns
as the light rises
ephemeral and breathless
a new beginning
unrecognisable yes
indelible nonetheless
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Categories:
lanterns, allegory, perspective, spiritual,
Form: Tanka
Ethereal Lanterns
A season of reflection,
We set ourselves apart,
We lay our hearts on the altar of meditation,
We alight from dawn’s cart.
We hold the lamp into the night,
We search the hidden places of our chamber,
We sojourn into the light,
Awakened from our souls’ slumber.
A season of rebirth,
There’s an overhauling from the inside,
We draw out from the wells of mirth,
It’s
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Categories:
lanterns, devotion, spiritual,
Form: Quatrain
NATURE'S GIFT: Beyond A Silent World: ''Ethereal Lanterns''
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If I held the power of speech,
silence is never
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Categories:
lanterns, appreciation, cheer up, creation,
Form: Free verse
Ethereal Lanterns
Written: March 30, 2024 For Ink Empress Ethereal Lantern Contest
Quote By Rumi: “The lamps are different, but the Light is the same. One matter, one energy, one Light, one Light-mind, endlessly emanating all things.”
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Categories:
lanterns, light, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Ethereal Lanterns
“Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom” Rumi
Once I roamed in forgotten fields of poppies,
without a metaphor or adjective to
portray sombre sorrows for tomorrow.
In the dilemma of a firework fate,
where happiness is
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Categories:
lanterns, allusion, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Ethereal Lanterns
As the holy season commemorates revelations of scriptures,
Sacred flame burning within, reinvigorates soul’s intellect,
Steering away from the fallible, toward realms of perfect,
Away from servitude of wealth, to caring for less-fortunate;
Empowering wisdom, vying sapience of enlightenment,
Inspiring collaboration in sanctity of spiritual exchange,
Rejecting overtures nescient, engaged in narrowness,
That confine humanity in fallacies unwitting, misguided.
In domains of
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Categories:
lanterns, inspirational, meaningful, uplifting,
Form: Verse
Ethereal Lanterns
On the blessed days, light travels through the senses
A flotilla of flames floats on the river of each vein
Touching the soul with its infinite union
Shining with opulence through generations
Verse by poet
The heavens surveyed the scenes in all its splendour
As lights aura draped in her crotched shawls
Blew life into each fledging spark
‘Til each lantern became
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Categories:
lanterns, blessing, imagery, introspection, light,
Form: Free verse
in quiet introspection - Ethereal Lanterns
at this blessed time of the year
I am in quiet introspection
seeking the ethereal ~ I meditate
wanting to set sail to divine balance
as a lantern gliding over the sea
delicate, airy and light
I am filmy and gossamer
my aura misty mauve
life is a delicate fragile seed
full of promise, hope and love
and my life is unfurling
for my floating ethereal
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Categories:
lanterns, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
LANTERNS OF FAITH, HOPE, GRACE AND LOVE
Faith drives toward triumphant crest
Championing trust against doubt’s pest
To conquer failures during test
Healing pain’s grief with prayer-zest
For souls to be joyously blest.
Hope brings comfort with vibrant glow
Smiting fear of attacking woe
Midst peace to face tomorrow
Gladly welcoming blessings’ flow
Sharing against selfishness-blow.
Grace* pours down heavenly treasure
Enriching with divine pleasure
To bask in spiritual leisure
Yon wealth of celestial measure
And
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Categories:
lanterns, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form: Didactic
Ethereal Lanterns
E ntering this season with joyful heart
T hanking the Almighty for blessings great
H oping for a love-filled renewed life start
E xpressing desire for a peaceful state
R elaying to everyone the Good News
E mulating the Father in grace shown
A ppreciating more, dispelling blues
L oving purely, reaching vistas unknown
L ighting up lives by spreading His mercy
A cknowledging
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Categories:
lanterns, easter, jesus, joy,
Form: Acrostic
Ethereal Lanterns Spring Feelings
Joy.
Rebirth.
Trees blossom.
Flowers blooming.
Robins sing their songs.
New babies mean new life.
Hope pouring into our lives.
Warmer weather brings Spring Fever.
A blessed Easter morning at church.
All of this brings me peace and happiness.
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Categories:
lanterns, beauty, creation, happiness, joy,
Form: Etheree
ETHEREAL LANTERNS
Came a time to lay your burden
Mend the heart that's long time broken
Shun the gloom and enjoy life
There's no point in hate and strife
It's a time to think and ponder
To see beauty and wonder
For, by blood and water, you came pure
Live life, you don't need to endure
Ethereal
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Categories:
lanterns, life,
Form: Rhyme
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