8.19.2008

3 Lanturnes

damn
I don't
have any
good chardonnay
left

all
that's left
is some old
wine I bought on
sale

cool
cheap and
last ditch but
it is all I
have



I've never heard of this poetic form before. It's called "lanturne" or "lantern" because it kind of looks like a Japanese lantern. It is a five line poem with a syllabic pattern of one, two, three, four, one. Has anyone else ever heard of a lanturne? I couldn't find anything about this particular form's origin.

3 comments:

Mega said...

I googled and wiki'd "lanturne" and all I got was Pokemon references. Fail.

But anyhoo, I enjoyed this one.

Anonymous said...

why you use only one word in one line? I never saw this style anwhere .

Anonymous said...

Greetings!
Robert-Gilles from Shizuoka, Japan!
It might be a form of "tanka".
I'll check for you!
Whatever, your poem is great!
Cheers,
R-G.