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23 July 2010

Editorial: Lunes

I was going to discontinue this blog. Lately I'm exploring the lune instead of the haiku form. But wot-the-heck, lunes were invented as a form of English-language haiku, so I shall include them here and broaden the scope of this blog, rather than turning it into a static archive.

There are two kinds:

The Kelly lune has three lines of 5 syllables / 3 syllables / 5 syllables.

The Collom lune has three lines of 3 words / 5 words / 3 words.

There are no other rules.

In May and June I posted some over at The Passionate Crone, which I'll leave there and also repost here; then will post newer ones here, not there.
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2 comments:

  1. Little Seed1 August 2010 at 13:27

    Love the lunes! Didn't do a syllable count, thought they were sets of haiku. 5-7-5 is the traditional count, but any micro-poem qualifies as haiku.

    Now I know what lunes are. Thank you.

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  2. Rosemary Nissen-Wade14 August 2010 at 10:30

    Well, they are sort of haiku. :)

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