tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-276836902011-07-07T14:14:15.940-07:00Examples of the rarer five line poetic image form eg lanternes and ekphrasisichthyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02166493604739619406noreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27683690.post-1147006474682048512006-05-07T05:43:00.000-07:002010-09-20T02:42:48.588-07:00<a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_9A9gX5wXrV4/SI8nU53kNZI/AAAAAAAAACk/kPMIOiQl77A/s1600-h/lanterne.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5228440932485182866" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_9A9gX5wXrV4/SI8nU53kNZI/AAAAAAAAACk/kPMIOiQl77A/s320/lanterne.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><div><strong>Lanterne</strong><br />A <em>lanterne</em> 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'.<br /><em>Comments on this blog maybe made to strandbg@aol.com</em><br />#1<br />Black,<br />yellow,<br />brown, or white--<br />partitions skin<br />deep.<br /><br />#2 WATER MEADOWS<br /><br />rush<br />and sedge<br />hide shady<br />ponds--teeming<br />with<br />life<br /><br />#3<br /><br />by<br />the stream<br />so shallow,<br />weeps a willow<br />tree.<br /><br />#4 DAYSTAR<br /><br />dawn<br />tinges<br />the bleak sky--<br />hope enlightens<br />all<br /><br />#5<br /><br />a<br />sea mist<br />rolls inshore---<br />daydreams deluge<br />me<br /><br />#6 BIRDSONG<br /><br />lost<br />in the<br />soft mist of<br />a September<br />dawn<br /><br />#7 EQUINOX<br /><br />Rain<br />droped leaves,<br />spotted gold--<br />scatter in the<br />wind<br /><br />#8 MONA LISA<br /><br />Her<br />gaze and<br />smile followed<br />his every<br />step<br /><br />#9<br /><br />bells<br />tolling<br />on the wind--<br />old memories<br />die<br /><br />#10<br />a<br />dry rock--<br />out of the<br />white water of<br />life<br /><br />#11 HIGH RISE<br />Thin<br />spires<br />in the breeze---<br />tasselled teasels<br />touch<br /><br />Lanterne #12<br /><br />Faint<br />May breeze----<br />in the trees<br />ripples shaded<br />green<br />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 <a href="mailto:bstrandbg@hotmail.com">mailto:bstrandbg@hotmail.com</a><br />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.<br /><strong>TETRACTYS EXAMPLES </strong>by Brian Strand<br /><br />ICHTHYS<br /><br />White<br />blossom,<br />a welcome<br />springtime emblem,<br />the foretaste of succulent fruit to come.<br /><br />BLUE NUDE-Matisse<br /><br />Her<br />figure<br />created<br />stark sensations,<br />aroused by the simple blue cut-out shapes<br /><br />NATAL THERAPY<br /><br />To<br />forget<br />those bygones<br />done and dusted,<br />lost,forgiven and now forever gone.<br /><br />SHORT MEASURE<br /><br />Eye<br />poems<br />displaying<br />a shapely form-<br />exempting audition from needless stress.<br /><br />SUMMER BALL<br /><br />Love<br />blossomed<br />suddenly<br />that evening<br />they met by chance,in the 'excuse me' dance.<br /><br />RENEWAL<br /><br />Rain<br />upon<br />frozen earth,<br />metamorphised,<br />now emerging as bluebells in the glade.<br /><br />REVERIE<br /><br />Way<br />beyond<br />bygone's reach,<br />ambitions lay<br />buried deep in his forgotten dreams.<br /><br /><br /><strong>All the image poems below are COPYRIGHT of Brian Strand an English Poet</strong> they may be reproduced for educational purpposes provided an acknowlwdgement of copyright is made and an email advice of use is made to <a href="mailto:strandbg@hotmail.com">mailto:strandbg@aol.com</a>My chapbook PHANEROS printed by Parchments of Oxford ( £5/$10/5 Euros) contains more of cinqku,haiku and tanka and an example of a haiga.Can be acquired by applying to above email in the first instance</div><div> </div><div><br /><strong>Other Educational Poetry Blogs of mine are<br /></strong>haiga-ichthys.blogspot.com<br />vignette-ichthys.blogspot.com<br />monoku-ichthys.blogspot.com<br />sequence-fibonacci.blogspot.com<br />ekphrasis-poiema.blogspot.com<br />quintile.blogspot.com<br />quintain.blogspot.com<br />ichthys-couplets.blogspot.com<br />epulaeryu.blogspot.com<br />tetractys-ichthys.blogspot.com<br />englyn.blogspot.com</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/27683690-114700647468204851?l=quintain.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>ichthyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02166493604739619406noreply@blogger.com0