Best Collom Poems

Red cherry splashes
in sweating drink, smile flashes.
My first date.



{Form is Collom Lune.
Inspired by Andrea's pretty picture #2}...

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EXTINCTION
A
Collom Lune
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mother natures laws

don’t break them… or pay

no fines… extinction

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EXTINCTION
A
Kelly Lune

natures laws... 
don’t break them… no fines
extinction

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Kelly lune uses syllables 3, 5, 3, a Collom lune words  using the syllabic count. With respect to Eve Roper, and much thanks for her inadvertently pointing out...

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1. Kelly Lune:
silk rose under dome
opaque glass
thwarted love preserved


2. Jack Collom Lune:
the faded corsage
under a dusty glass dome—
missed spring ball

NOT FOR CONTEST
POET'S NOTES
The lune (aka American haiku) created by New York-based poet Robert Kelly (1935–) in the 1960s consists of 5-3-5 syllables (the 13 syllables...

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