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.
I wrote these lunes to get us started.
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.)
I wrote these lunes to get us started.
Lune #1So, do you want to play? What kind of lunes will you write? Please share a link to your poem or the poem itself in the comments.
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!
the beak of the world
ReplyDeletepecks, pokes, pries
till it frees a seed
how does a poem stretch
so tall when
it looks very small?
cool summer wind drifts
through window
as I lie awake
—Kate Coombs 2013,
all rights reserved
summer’s road stretches
ReplyDeletetowards fall
I yearn for July
Fairy houses nest
quietly
tucked in lush gardens
cosy harbor scene:
colorful
sails flutter about
Janet F.
NIGHTTIME DISCOURSE
ReplyDeleteFireflies chatter
Back and forth
Through aurulent flash.
WAKE UP CALL
Cell phone alarm chirps:
Good morning!
Back to school blues.
(C) Charles Waters 2013 all rights reserved.