Sunday, May 07, 2006
Lanterne
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 'sixth line'.
A tetractys is five line poem of 20 syllables 1,2,3,4,10 in which each line stands on its own.Follow the link to find out more of this five line form.
Below are some of my examples of both forms( copyright Brian Strand England),they may be used for educational purposes provided this site is acknowledged and an advice of use is emailed to mailto:bstrandbg@hotmail.com
If you are interested in writing lanternes or ekphrasis five liners why not join the Lanternes workshop group (see link)of poets.A workshop to promote all the various types of five line image forms or
purchase my chapbook Phaneros available from above email address for a 10US$ bill or equivalent in pounds or euros .It contains 55 lanternes in a variety of forms.
#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
TETRACTYS EXAMPLES by Brian Strand
ICHTHYS
White
blossom,
a welcome
springtime emblem,
the foretaste of succulent fruit to come.
BLUE NUDE-Matisse
Her
figure
created
stark sensations,
aroused by the simple blue cut-out shapes
NATAL THERAPY
To
forget
those bygones
done and dusted,
lost,forgiven and now forever gone.
SHORT MEASURE
Eye
poems
displaying
a shapely form-
exempting audition from needless stress.
SUMMER BALL
Love
blossomed
suddenly
that evening
they met by chance,in the 'excuse me' dance.
RENEWAL
Rain
upon
frozen earth,
metamorphised,
now emerging as bluebells in the glade.
REVERIE
Way
beyond
bygone's reach,
ambitions lay
buried deep in his forgotten dreams.
all the above poems copyright Brian Strand England
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 'sixth line'.
A tetractys is five line poem of 20 syllables 1,2,3,4,10 in which each line stands on its own.Follow the link to find out more of this five line form.
Below are some of my examples of both forms( copyright Brian Strand England),they may be used for educational purposes provided this site is acknowledged and an advice of use is emailed to mailto:bstrandbg@hotmail.com
If you are interested in writing lanternes or ekphrasis five liners why not join the Lanternes workshop group (see link)of poets.A workshop to promote all the various types of five line image forms or
purchase my chapbook Phaneros available from above email address for a 10US$ bill or equivalent in pounds or euros .It contains 55 lanternes in a variety of forms.
#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
TETRACTYS EXAMPLES by Brian Strand
ICHTHYS
White
blossom,
a welcome
springtime emblem,
the foretaste of succulent fruit to come.
BLUE NUDE-Matisse
Her
figure
created
stark sensations,
aroused by the simple blue cut-out shapes
NATAL THERAPY
To
forget
those bygones
done and dusted,
lost,forgiven and now forever gone.
SHORT MEASURE
Eye
poems
displaying
a shapely form-
exempting audition from needless stress.
SUMMER BALL
Love
blossomed
suddenly
that evening
they met by chance,in the 'excuse me' dance.
RENEWAL
Rain
upon
frozen earth,
metamorphised,
now emerging as bluebells in the glade.
REVERIE
Way
beyond
bygone's reach,
ambitions lay
buried deep in his forgotten dreams.
all the above poems copyright Brian Strand England
