WD Poetic Form Challenge: Lune Winner
I swear these challenges just keep getting harder and harder to judge. Of course, that’s only because the poems continue to be more and more enjoyable to the point where…
I swear these challenges just keep getting harder and harder to judge. Of course, that's only because the poems continue to be more and more enjoyable to the point where it's hard to pick a winner. I loved reading everyone's lunes (click here to go to the original post and read all of them in the Comments).
That said, the winner of this challenge is--oddly enough--the first person who posted a lune: Don Share. Congratulations!
Usually, I just post the winner's poem. However, since the lune is only a 3-line poem (click here to read more about the form), here's the entire top 10 beginning with Don Share's lune:
I hope to be dead
and gone, but
not in that order
Don Share
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i hid the house keys
underneath
my red flowerpot
Marissa Coon
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The shiner minnows
zip past me.
Thousands move as one.
Nancy Posey
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The wind-stirred limbs seem
to tickle
the wide-bellied moon
Brian Slusher
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a bug on my screen
wants to read
my blank Word file
Gregory Gilewski
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Fireflies weave lightning
threads through corn, bean fields.
Sparkling tapestry rises.
Willy
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Ballet dancer holds:
her toes crushed.
The audience smiles.
Carol Grannick
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no lifeguard on staff
hotel pool
swim at your own risk
RJ Clarken
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A squirt of dish-soap –
bubbled light,
perfect rainbow globes.
Taylor Graham
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a lune by any
other name
haiku just the same
Cara Holman
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Congratulations to everyone in the Top 10! And thank you to everyone who participated! I really enjoyed reading all of the poems so much and look forward to whatever our next challenge might be.
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The winner of this WD Poetic Form Challenge will be published in the November/December issue of Writer's Digest. Click here to learn more about this awesome magazine for writers.
Or check out these resources for poets:
2011 Poet's Market, edited by Robert Lee Brewer
Writing the Life Poetic, by Sage Cohen
The Poetry Dictionary, by John Drury
Robert Lee Brewer is Senior Editor of Writer's Digest, which includes managing the content on WritersDigest.com and programming virtual conferences. He's the author of 40 Plot Twist Prompts for Writers: Writing Ideas for Bending Stories in New Directions, The Complete Guide of Poetic Forms: 100+ Poetic Form Definitions and Examples for Poets, Poem-a-Day: 365 Poetry Writing Prompts for a Year of Poeming, and more. Also, he's the editor of Writer's Market, Poet's Market, and Guide to Literary Agents. Follow him on Twitter @robertleebrewer.
