* Hailu is my personal combination of a 5-7-5 syllabled Haiku format and the 3-5-3 word poem format created by poet Jack Collom

The lune is also known as the American Haiku. It was first created by the poet Robert Kelly (truly a great poet) and was a result of Kelly's frustration with English haiku. After much experimentation, he settled on a 13-syllable, self-contained poem that has 5 syllables in the first line, 3 syllables in the second line and 5 syllables in the final line.

There is a variant lune created by poet Jack Collom. His form is also a self-contained tercet, but his poem is word-based (not syllable-based) and has the structure of 3 words in the first line, 5 words in the second line and 3 words in the final line.

As with Kelly's, there are no other rules.

Thanks to FanArtist cleo85 for this photo illustration.

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