Thank you for all of the positive feedback. A Gather friend, DragonSoul!, inspired me to try this poetic form.
According to "The Handbook of Poetic Forms," Robert Kelly invented the Lune out of a dissatisfaction with our Western use of Haiku. Since English says things in fewer syllables than Japanese, he reasoned that a shorter English pattern would be appropriate to haiku-size thoughts. I like this form much better than Haiku.
A wonderful Lune Marianne! One that my father would especially like since he loves cardinals (that is of course if he were in to poetry lol.) I believe that we may have at least one of the same books on poetic forms, as your comment above was almost a word for word excerpt from the book on my desk as we speak (er...type.) Thanks for the "props" as the inspiration for this piece.
I can see the red bird in the snow in my minds eye, as there is no snow here. Just cloudy over cast skies and balmy breeze blowing in temperature of mid 60's. Quite a change from last week.
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According to "The Handbook of Poetic Forms," Robert Kelly invented the Lune out of a dissatisfaction with our Western use of Haiku. Since English says things in fewer syllables than Japanese, he reasoned that a shorter English pattern would be appropriate to haiku-size thoughts. I like this form much better than Haiku.