Lamp: Gift of Illumination (Wk 6)

Lamp: Gift of Illumination

Oil
Stretches,
Burns Steady,
Mentor of Flames,
Lamp

Flame
Warming,
Reading Light,
Passionate Fire,
Lamp

Wick
Stands tall,
Strong, sturdy,
Flexible, Lasts,
Lamp

Wax
Warm, Drips
Like Teardrops,
Strongest when Cool,
Lamp

Match,
Striking,
Ignites, Bright,
Impulse, Spark, Gone,
Lamp

Man
Oil, Wax,
Wick, Flame, Match,
Necessary,
Lamp


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ABOUT THE FORM (SEE BELOW)


The lanturne is a short shape poem from Japan describing a specific one syllable noun, such as a feeling, a thing, or an abstract idea. The lantern poem takes the form of a hanging lantern, going from short to wider as the poem goes on, and then becoming short again in the final line. The purpose of the lantern poem is to illuminate the subject and re-imagine or personalize it for the reader, not just to simply define it.

From: http://www.ehow.com/how_4928414_write-lantern-poem.html

Our focus will be on 2 ways of writing in this form (which should always be centered) –

single: The Lanturne is a five-line verse shaped like a Japanese lantern with a syllabic pattern of one,
two, three, four, one.

string: consists of two or more five-line verses shaped like a Japanese lantern with a syllabic pattern of 1, 2, 3, 4, 1; 1, 2, 3, 4, 1; 1, 2, 3, 4, 1; and so on...

From: http://www.shadowpoetry.com/resources/wip/lanturne.html

ID: 1750017   (Rated: E) Lamp (?'s for private use)  Goes with Lamp: Gift of Illumination (discussion topics for teen group) by SWPoet