Collom Lunes

The Collom lune is a 3-line, non-rhyming, word-based form created by Jack Collom (1931–2017). It's one of several attempts to create a formal equivalent to haiku adapted for the English language. The lines have 3/5/3 words, for a total of 11.

An alternative form also called the lune was created by Robert Kelly.

Poems

1. 2025-09-24

   cold hard air
   fills the holes of hagstones,
   completing the work

2. 2025-09-03

   the fungal council
   is growing big and wrong
   before the storm

3. 2025-06-08

   that plastic cuckoo,
   the golf ball crushes eggs
   in the nest

4. 2025-05-14

   daisies grow stunted
   in the church's heavy shadow—
   numb ghost petals

5. 2025-05-11

   neighbourhood watch signs
   plastered in yellow phalanx everywhere
   obscure the neighbourhood

6. 2025-05-04

   feeling my scars
   I decide to misremember yours
   as only smudges

7. 2025-05-04

   eyes like dogs
   not sure how to respond
   to first kindness