Soul’s Due

Soul’s Due: Lanternes*

Words
you’ve not
written will
be buried with
you.

Tunes
you have
not sung will
fade without one
clue.

So
live life
with fervor,
‘fore death becomes
true.

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In response to May Book Prompts –  by Sarah Doughty and MahWrites.

Today’s prompt is Library of Souls (Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children, #3) by Ransom Riggs.

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*Lanterne

The Lanterne is:

• a pentastich, a poem in 5 lines.
• syllabic, 1-2-3-4-1 syllables per line.
• is composed with no punctuation and no rhyme, each end-word should be strong.
• centered on the page. Since this is a concrete or shape poem, the length of the word on the page factors into the equation, syllable count is not enough to determine the selection.
• title optional.