One can find many variations on haiku these days. Often these forms attempt to find a syllabic pattern that is more appropriate to English than Japanese. Today's poetry stretch takes the form of one of these variations in the lune.
Here are two lunes I wrote when I woke up this morning.
The lune is a haiku variation invented and named by poet Robert Kelly. The lune, so called because of how the right edge is bowed like a crescent moon, is a thirteen syllable form arranged in three lines of 5 / 3/ 5 respectively.You can try your hand at writing an instant lune or read some examples by Robert Kelly here.
(Adapted from The Teachers & Writers Handbook of Poetic Forms.)
Here are two lunes I wrote when I woke up this morning.
Lune #1So, do you want to play? What kind of lunes will you write? Post your creation(s) on your blog and then leave a link in the comments. Once we have some poems, I'll link them all here.
wings beating, whirring
you float there
sipping sweet nectar
Can you guess what I was watching when I wrote this?
Lune #2
watermelon days
rush headlong
toward pencils, books, desks
I suppose none of us can escape this one. I, for one, can't wait!
Tricia,
ReplyDeleteI'm a week behind! Here's the URL to my cento at Wild Rose Reader.
http://wildrosereader.blogspot.com/2007/08/cento.html
I've given it a shot, Tricia.
ReplyDeletehttp://aloneonalimb.blogspot.com/2007/08/monday-poetry-stretch-lune.html
I gave it a try tonight - late.
ReplyDeleteTricia,
ReplyDeleteI'll have to experiment with lunes this week. Thanks for this Poetry Stretch!