Excellent Lantern Suite Minnesota Poems : Colorful Rite by Treischel

Colorful Rite (A Lantern Poem) Rite honor religious plea in motion Pray Bob shuffle tapping feet vivid display Dance Garb faith show the Virgin saintly regard Dress Hat feathers bright colors native headdress Cap Hue color appearance gay exhibit Tinge Fringe buckskin tasseled skirt swaying ribbons Pomp Author Notes Mexican Indian dance in honor of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Religious rite in colorful garb performed in front of the Cathedral of St. Paul, Minnesota. Bob is meant as in bob and weave. Gay is meant in the sense of colorful, bright. This poem is a Lantern suite, which is a series of Lantern poems, inspired by a poem I reviewed by fellow Fanstorian, Sunnilicious, called Pumpkin. Thought I'd try one. A Lantern poem is a Japanese short poem describing a syllable noun. The syllable count is: 1/2/3/4/1. It must be centered, then have one syllable chosen to serve as a topic. Have the noun in the 1st to 4th syllable described then have one that can be a reinterpretation or a synonym. The Lantern poem takes the form of a hanging lantern, going from short to wider as the poem goes on, and then becoming short again in the final line. 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. This photograph was taken by the author himself in October 2012.

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