The Theater, The Theater

A String Lanturne poem written for Week 6, Poetic Explorations.

Lights,
curtain,
an entrance.
The theater
calls.

Life
shown by
you on stage.
Fantasy or
real.

Gasp!
Watching
from outside,
the audience
shares.

Heart
and soul
fulfills your
very essence.
Live.

A
standing
ovation.
The curtain falls.
Dark.

Author Notes:
The Lanturne is a five-line poem from Japan describing a specific one syllable noun, such as a feeling, a thing, or an abstract idea.  It is shaped like a Japanese lantern with a syllabic pattern of 1, 2, 3, 4, 1.  The purpose of the lantern poem is to illuminate the subject and re-imagine or personalize it for the reader, not just to simply define it.

A String Lanturne consists of two or more five-line verses shaped like a Japanese lantern with a syllabic pattern of 1, 2, 3, 4, 1; 1, 2, 3, 4, 1; 1, 2, 3, 4, 1; and so on...