Day 2 of the Political Lune Poetry Slam starts now
Even a few words
Carefully
Written move mountains
As a counterpoint to all the great diaries and comments here at DKos which expound upon subjects and issues in delightfully verbose ways, I would like to challenge you to a terse form of conversation: Political Lune Poetry
A fixed form variant of Haiku, Lune Poetry has two forms:
The Robert Kelly lune
Robert Kelly, a Professor of Literature at Bard College, invented a new form of English-language haiku using the form 5/3/5 syllables, with the intention of making the form closer to the Japanese haiku than English-language haiku written in a 5/7/5 syllable format[1].
The Jack Collom lune
It is measured in words rather than syllables, making it easier for children to learn and compose. The form is 3/5/3 words. Jack Collom created this new form of haiku by chance, when he misremembered the original creation of Kelly's as this form, thereby creating a new one[1].
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