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Dec2

 
 
 


On a full-moon night
 
how pleasant to cross the bridge
 
without a lantern!

2 Comments Posted in 5-7-5, © 2020 by Mark M. Redfearn Tagged bridge, lantern, moon, night

Sep25

 
 
 


Unlighted lantern—
 
a luna moth shrinks its wings
 
to fit the darkness.

8 Comments Posted in 5-7-5, © 2020 by Mark M. Redfearn Tagged darkness, lantern, luna moth, wing

Sep17

 
 
 


An old stone lantern
 
in the Japanese garden
 
fills with leaves, not light.

Leave a comment Posted in 5-7-5, © 2020 by Mark M. Redfearn Tagged Japanese garden, lantern, leaves, light, stone

Aug18

 
 
 


This old stone lantern
 
where a wren once built its nest
 
now holds only dust.

Leave a comment Posted in 5-7-5, © 2020 by Mark M. Redfearn Tagged dust, hold, lantern, nest, stone, wren

Apr26

 
 
 


A crack in the glass
 
lets the lantern’s light leak out—
 
my journey lengthens.

Leave a comment Posted in 5-7-5, © 2020 by Mark M. Redfearn Tagged crack, glass, journey, lantern, leak, light

Lantern

Sep28

 
 


lighting my way home—
 
the same flickering lantern
 
that my dad once held

Leave a comment Posted in 5-7-5, © 2016 by Mark M. Redfearn Tagged dad, flicker, home, lantern, light, way

Nest

Nov13

 
 
 


In the stone lantern
 
a young wren builds her first nest,
 
weaving hair with grass.

2 Comments Posted in 5-7-5, © 2015 by Mark M. Redfearn Tagged build, grass, hair, lantern, stone, weave, wren

Shaking

Oct7

 
 
 


shaking with fever
 
at the lantern festival
 
a brindle stray dog

5 Comments Posted in 5-7-5, © 2015 by Mark M. Redfearn Tagged brindle, dog, festival, fever, lantern, shaking, stay

Captured

May14

 
 
 


the small boy’s lantern—
 
a hundred captured fireflies
 
glowing in a jar

23 Comments Posted in 5-7-5, © 2015 by Mark M. Redfearn Tagged boy, fireflies, jar, lantern

Lantern

Nov24

 
 
 


a solar lantern
 
placed upon the soldier’s grave
 
keeping watch by night

5 Comments Posted in 5-7-5, © 2014 by Mark M. Redfearn Tagged grave, lantern, night, solar, soldier, watch

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