Coneflowers bloom out,
Tempting Bees
To feast in spring!
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Cascades of Sunlight
Flow through twigs
Soon to Erupt Green.
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Hands Pry Rocks from Soil,
Squiggly Bugs
Greet Curious Smiles.
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What is a Lune?
It’s a format of poetry similar to a Haiku but instead of 5:7:5, it goes 5:3:5. This is to account for the differences of word length and language between Japanese and English. 17 ‘syllables’ in Japanese have different abilities than in English, so they were made shorter to account for this!
Named ‘Lune’ for the crescent shape the sentences make, they were thought up by American poet Robert Kelly. They have no seasonal theming, unlike Haikus, so anyone can write about anything to their heart’s content!
