Lantern [Free Verse]

The lightbulb inside
A temple lantern
Shines like the sun:
Backdrop to painted
Branch & blossom...

But the fact that it's lit
Means that it must be
The moon.

Lanterns [Kyōka]

rows of lanterns —
a jack-o-lantern patch —
lights the temple
on a dark, rainy night;
rain splats on a tin roof.

DAILY PHOTO: Hoi An by Night

Taken on December 23, 2015 in Hoi An

Taken on December 23, 2015 in Hoi An

 

Street food

Street food

 

Floating lanterns

Floating lanterns

DAILY PHOTO: Tomato Lantern

Taken November 2013 at Queen's Restaurant in Bangalore

Taken November 2013 at Queen’s Restaurant in Bangalore

I took this in a dimly lit Bangalore restaurant with a cellphone. Needless to say, it did not turn out well, but it’s something different for a Sunday. My chicken tikka came with a cool tomato lantern. It looks like something that fell out of Iron Man’s chest in this photo, but was a pleasant piece of ambiance in person.

Queen’s is a little hole-in-the-wall restaurant on Church St. I’ve found the food to be consistently good, though the decor might keep the faint-of-heart out.