Uhm, excuse me. Shouldn’t you be asking what is a “lantern”?
Actually, it is a lanturne. A lanturne is a five lined Japanese form of poetry with a syllabic pattern of one, two, three, four, one. If you use your imagination, the basic shape of a lanturne does look like a lantern. This is the type of poetry we learned about in our first writing class in September. Here are a couple written by me, the teacher.
Peas
swirling
on my plate.
They don’t taste so
great.
Smile
lingers
on your face;
telling of your
joy.
Stay tuned for our next post which will feature lanturnes written by our students.
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