100 Days of Lune Poems.
Nature reflected in short poems.
2019’s 100 Day Project was to write 100 lune poems.
A lune poem is a shorter version of a haiku and felt like an easy way to delve into poetry. For comparison, a haiku is three lines of 5, 7, 5 syllables, while a Lune is a little shorter with 3 lines of 5, 3, 5 syllables. The Lune is an American version of the haiku and was created by the poet Robert Kelly. By choosing a short poem style, I thought it would be easier to whip out a poem in a few minutes. But brevity does not mean easy, and there are some I struggled with. It can be hard to express all the feelings and thoughts in so few syllables. Many of these poems don't do the feeling I had justice, but some capture it all perfectly.
Most of the 100 poems are based on nature, on what I saw that day, or maybe how I felt. I was in the desert a lot, so there are lots of references to desert wildflowers and rock. And it was also spring, so lots of mention of green, melting snow, storms, etc. Then there were many times when I thought I was being quite clever and profound, as one does while writing poetry.
The poems were written every day from the beginning of April to the beginning of July in 2019. The book itself is handmade with rice paper with 100 pages, stitched together and bound with a cover of shibori cloth that I dyed back in 2016.
