Poetry Wednesday #8

A lune is basically an American haiku.  There are two forms of lunes: Kelly and Collom.  The Kelly form was created by Robert Kelly and has thirteen syllables split between three lines in a 5/3/5 format.  Jack Collom created the Collom lune, which is also a tercet (three self-contained lines), but is word-based rather than syllable-based.  It's structure has 3 words in the first line, 5 in the second, and 3 in the last.  I'm playing around with both. ~ AJ

Autumnal Lunes

Equinox morning,

Liminal

Sun, chasing shadows.

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Leaves, changing, falling -

Autumn colors paint Northern states

Red and gold.

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Soon bare trees will dot

The landscape

Waiting for the snow.

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Arachne's children grow

Fat outside my window, weaving

Traps of gossamer.

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Night is more vivid

In the fall

Dreams come readily

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Anise, cloves, pumpkin,

Cinnamon, honey, nutmeg, apples, ginger . . .

Spice the season.

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