Lanterne poetry is defined by Poetry Soup (this is a great site to post your poetry too by the way) as:
“A type of poem that has one syllable in the first line, two syllables in the second line, three syllables in the third line, four syllables in the fourth line, and one syllable in the fifth line that related to the first word of the poem.
Example
- 5 line poem
- each line has a specific number of syllables
line 1 = 1 syllable
line 2 = 2 syllables
line 3 = 3 syllables
line 4 = 4 syllables
line 5 = 1 syllable - lines do not rhyme
- poem is based on one sentence or idea”
I came upon this type of poetry today on the blog called, “Friendly Fairy Tales,” and was enthralled by the simplicity of the words. The idea is for the words to form the shape of a lantern (see below). I could not get the words placed on the photo in the lantern shape because I wanted the path to be the focal point. I will work on this in the future 
Anyway, all I could think of was how perfect this would be for Amanda’s Pixel Prose Challenge!
Paths
new doors
from our past
first steps toward
home
I love the brevity of the words and the shape of the word pattern. I look forward to playing with this poetry in the future.
I took this photo this morning on my walk and was startled to see that a path seemed to lead into the swamp from the way the trees grew. Very COOL! The swamp changes drastically in the winter and I had never seen this view before.
Thanks for checking in on me today. I always enjoy seeing your smiling face!
Silver Threading
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Hi Colleen, thank you for introducing us to another type of poetry. There seem to be more and more popping up all the time, but I quite like this style. Mind you, I rather think that the words form the shape of a Christmas Tress rather than a lantern, but that could be it’s not long until December is upon us 🙂 Ho, ho, ho… (see, I’m already in the Christmas spirit).
What fun Hugh! I think you need to start writing some Christmas themed poetry using the lanterne style. I like to keep trying new things. It keeps me on my toes! 🙂
Thanks for a wonderful post as always lots of new ideas , love your image and poem here to demonstrate the idea . Kind Regards Kathy.
Thank you. I am glad you enjoyed this style.
This is lovely. Good on ya for trying something new. The pattern worked really well for what you did. And I like the photo too.
Thanks. Always fun to try new things.
Thanks for sharing about the lantern poems. It looks like fun.
Try it. It was a fun challenge.
Beautiful style of poetry and lovely poem and photo you’ve posted here!
Thank you. It was fun to try something different. 😊
How cool is that Colleen! Thanks for introducing us to a new style of poetry, when you look into it, it’s unbelievable how many different forms there are! I’d like to try this one at some point. 🙂 <3
It was like writing a sentence with deep meaning 🌺
Yes I love the intensity! 🙂
Sounds interesting. Think I will give it a try. Thank you for sharing.
Glad you enjoyed it. Here is a site that will help you with the syllable count. Go into the poem workshop tab: http://www.howmanysyllables.com/words/finally I can’t wait to see your creation. <3
Keep walking and making poem and photos like that, please?
Will do 🙂
Great job with this, really well done 😄
Thank you. 🌺
I really like this poem, Colleen — lots to think about with “paths.”
I had all of that in mind when I took the photo. So many ways to go 🙂 Thank you.
I love yours!!
Thank you for sharing this type of poetry. I was really excited to see something new.
I discovered it by reading the fine print. 🙂 The most amazing stuff is in the fine print.
Love it Brenda. Details are always worth reading! <3
I agree!
Wonderful!
Thank you! <3
Welcome
This is very cool! I think I stumbled across this type of poem once but never felt inspired to try it…I’m definitely going to now. Yours is lovely! And great photo
Thank you. I think it is fun to try all of this new stuff out. You just never know. <3
Interesting how you shaped that! Love it!
I had never heard of this before. I love how visual it is 🙂