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. 2025-06-08

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

2. 2025-05-11

   neighbourhood watch signs
   plastered in yellow phalanx everywhere
   obscure the neighbourhood