Candle

LANTURNE - a Japanese form with a syllabic form of 5 lines. The syllable counts for each line are: 1, 2, 3, 4, 1. Although it is short, a short poem still needs to bring across an idea, emotion, etc.

Flame
flickers
intensly.
Brightly burning
wick.

Wax,
melting,
makes its way
down the candle,
tall.

Torch,
casting
a warm light
throughout the room -
flame.

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