The Lune: The English Language Haiku

My interest in the Lune is due to my interest in the Japanese Haiku. I adore attempting to come up with eye- and brain-catching pictures in a couple of words.

SAY WHAT?

The "u" is pronounced like the o's in the word boo; or pronounced loon, like the aquatic bird.

Short HISTORY

There are two differences of the Lune, so there are two Short histories.

Robert Kelly Lune:

Robert Kelly, a Professor of Literature at Bard College because 1986 and resident of Red Hook (New York), invented the Lune poetry type. There are much more syllables in Japanese words than there are in English words. Writing Haiku (five-7-five syllables) in English creates a various poem than the Japanese intention. Robert Kelly invented the Lune to eliminate those variations, and so tends to make the Lune (five-three-five syllables) closer to Haiku than Haiku written in the English language.

Jack Collom Lune:

According to The Teachers & Writers Handbook of Poetic Types (edited by Ron Padgett), Jack Collom produced his version by accident. It also mentions that as he was, "starting to function with schoolchildren he misremembered Kelly's concept as a count of three/five/three words, rather than syllables." In performing so, he designed a new variation of the Lune. As a pleased coincidence, this variation created it simpler for children to create Lunes, considering that words are less complicated to count than syllables.

Should HAVES

Robert Kelly Lune:

-3 lines containing a syllabic count of five-three-five.

-A total idea inside these 3 lines (thirteen syllables).

Jack Collom Lune:

-3 lines containing a word count of three-five-three.

-A full concept inside these 3 lines (eleven words).

May possibly HAVES or WHAT IS THE POET'S Selection IN ALL THIS?

Almost everything else!

The Lune does not have the very same restraints as Haiku. You may possibly refer to the seasons or not. You may perhaps rhyme or not, normally a no-no in Haiku. You may possibly also use metaphor, simile, and so forth. Which is frowned upon in Haiku - but I sometimes use them in mine considering that I like them. Hearing that, Basho (a renowned Haiku poet of the 1600's) rolled more than in his grave in annoyance.

This is a kind with wonderful latitude, and has turn into my new favourite kind. It has All the things I like, and does not develop me really feel guilty for adding my metaphors. Now, if they may perhaps only invent a calorie-cost-free banana split I'd be in heaven.

When generating Lune chains, I would build positive each person Lune has a comprehensive notion - just as Haiku chains do. Considering the fact that the Lune type has handful of restrictions, I'd keep as correct to them as I may possibly.

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About the Author: Employing her writing as paint on the canvas of her life, Holly Bliss is an eclectic writer, newsletter editor and an author on http://www.Writing.Com/ which is a internet site for Poetry.