Our host at http://www.ethicalela.com today for Day 3 of August’s Open Write is Leilya Pitre, who inspires us to write Lune poems focused on the Monday Blues. You can read her full prompt here.
One of Leilya’s coping strategies is “to plan something enjoyable for Monday. ” She asks us to think of what helps us get through trying days and to write a poem about it – specifically, a lune.
Leilya explains: “A lune poem, also known as an American haiku, is a short three-line poem. Lune poetry originated when American poets noticed that writing a haiku in English didn’t quite capture the essence of the Japanese form. Japanese words typically have more syllables, allowing for fewer words overall, so English poets adapted the form to better suit the language.
Poet Robert Kelly first created the lune in the 1960s. After some experimenting, he stopped on a 13-syllable poem with a 5-3-5 syllable structure: 5 syllables in the first line, 3 syllables in the second, and 5 syllables in the final line. Later, poet Jack Collom introduced a word-count variant of the lune that is more popular today: three words in the first line, five in the second, and three in the last (3-5-3 words).”
Happy Planner Stickers
Monday morning blues
start Sunday,
checking the boxes
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but Happy Planners
bring forth smiles
(colorful stickers) 🙂
Common Threads 