Website design By BotEap.comMy interest in the Moon stems from my interest in Japanese Haiku. I love trying to create images that catch the eye and the brain in a nutshell.

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Website design By BotEap.comThe “u” is pronounced like the o’s in the word boo; or pronounced grebe, like the waterfowl.

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Website design By BotEap.comThere are two variations of the Moon, so there are two short stories.

Website design By BotEap.comRoberto Kelly Moon:

Website design By BotEap.comRobert Kelly, a professor of literature at Bard College since 1986 and a resident of Red Hook, New York, invented the Lune form of poetry. There are more syllables in Japanese words than in English words. Writing Haiku (5-7-5 syllables) in English creates a different poem than the Japanese intent. Robert Kelly invented the Lune to eliminate these differences, thus making the Lune (5-3-5 syllables) closer to Haiku than Haiku written in English.

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Website design By BotEap.comAccording to The Teachers & Writers Handbook of Poetic Forms (edited by Ron Padgett), Jack Collom created his version by accident. He also mentions that as he was, he “beginning to work with school-age children, he misremembered Kelly’s idea as a 3/5/3 word count, instead of syllables.” In doing so, he created a new variation of the Moon. As a happy coincidence, this variation made it easier for the children to create Monday, since words are easier to count than syllables.

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Website design By BotEap.comRoberto Kelly Moon:

Website design By BotEap.com-Three lines containing a syllabic count of 5-3-5.

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Website design By BotEap.comJack Collom Luna:

Website design By BotEap.com-Three lines containing a word count of 3-5-3.

Website design By BotEap.com-A complete thought within those three lines (eleven words).

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Website design By BotEap.comThe Moon does not have the same restrictions as Haiku. It can refer to the seasons or not. It may or may not rhyme, usually a no-no in Haiku. You can also use metaphors, similes, etc. Which is frowned upon in Haiku, but I occasionally use them in mine because I like them. Hearing that, Basho (a famous Haiku poet from the 1600s) rolled over in his grave in anger.

Website design By BotEap.comThis is a shape with great freedom and it has become my new favorite shape. It has everything I like and it doesn’t make me feel guilty for adding my metaphors. Now, if they could just come up with a calorie-free banana split, I’d be in heaven.

Website design By BotEap.comWhen creating moon chains, I would make sure that each individual moon has a complete thought, just like Haiku chains do. Since the Lune form has few restrictions, I would stick to them as closely as possible.