POETRY

Crazy Thoughts

A poetic form called ‘Lune’

some thoughts are so crazed to sleep, they become obsessions

Hi there, dearest One! Here’s another poetic form called ‘Lune’, which is also considered as the American Haiku.

It is three-line poetry like the Japanese poem ‘Haiku’. It originated when English-writing haiku poets noticed they had a hard time writing haiku in English, as Japanese words tend to have more syllables.

In 1960, a New-York-based poet, named Robert Kelly invented the first Kelly lune form, which consists of five syllables in the first line, three syllables in the second line, and five syllables in the third line. Its name was based on its shape, which is a crescent moon.

Important points to consider: There is no rhyming rules, no cutting word, unlike the Japanese haiku, and remember it has three lines with a syllabic count of 5/3/5. (My version of this is written at the topmost.)

Eventually, another variant was formed unintentionally by another great American poet, Jack Collom. Based on “The Teachers & Writers Handbook of Poetic Forms”, (by Ron Padgett), Jack misquoted Kelly’s form as a count of 3/5/3 words rather than syllables.

But it was a sort of blessing-in-disguise, as kids fell in love to write more on the Collom lune poem easily because you see, words are much easier to count than syllables.

Take note: There is a complete thought within those three lines of the lune forms and a word count of 3/5/3.

Here’s my way into the Collom lune:

Nature’s Beauty At Its Beast

Brilliant lightning sparks deafening thunder rumbles and rolls huge electric spurts

That’s it, guys! They are so easy to compose. I hope you have a grand time like me.

Thanks so much for reading! Stay safe and well ever.

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