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seaside bungalow on Titan

no chance of a house fire

but the smell in the mud room!

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 loping the crater 

full-face Earth 

in the lunar sky

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My lune poem is up at haikuuniverse.com today. Please check it out!

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Lunegay; a poetic form analogous to a rengay. A rengay consists of a series of haiku-like stanzas interspersed with stanzas consisting of two lines that have a maximum of seven syllables each. A lune differs from a haiku in having lines of 5, 3, and 5 syllables, with the goal of making the stanzas resemble a crescent moon. They typically make reference to moons. A lunegay begins with a lune, and these alternate with stanzas of two lines as for a rengay. The length of the poem is indeterminate, but the middle is marked by two lunes in succession, as for a rengay. The lunegay was invented by me in 2019, though I haven't written many yet. A new one has been submitted to a magazine..

Two examples:

https://dreamsandnightmaresmagazine.blogspot.com/2019/10/101319.html

https://dreamsandnightmaresmagazine.blogspot.com/2020/02/021920.html

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kissed Earth goodbye
before the first cells hooked up
Luna missed the lifeboat
 

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High Tide

All the arms of the moon

gathered the plump round snails

it was time to bring them home

Each snail’s ribbon of teeth

sliced through the land

wind-tossed ribbons of forest

people flew up into the sky

mingling with the wood

after the storm a jackstraw world

pin oak woman, sweet gum man

standing in sleepy ranks

under a snail-full moon

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A look at Jovian astronomy as a scifaiku:

Europa’s

been slapped around a bit

she can’t leave her Da



Or does it work better as a lune?

Europa’s been slapped

too often

Jupiter’s handprints



Maybe a fib:

 

look

at

her face

Jupiter’s

worked her over good

but still Europa doesn’t leave

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chrome and steel bumper
car moons shrink
shiny tourist traps

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green moons

stir with life that longs for thee

your dark glory

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               full
        moon shines
  monochromatically
sailing above the wind
   someone's running
       pearly whites
            agleam

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Third grade field trip to the surface.

"People used to live here?"

Pointing up. "People used to live there."

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bright clouds draw aside
shine on, you
more than we deserve

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rising in the west
three new moons
with the glint of steel

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before the end

Luna’s trillions

transmuted

even their ancestors

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The Great Race*

cyclists race around

the green moon

Earth looms vacantly

the field holds in air and warmth

riders soar above the world

grove of apple trees

amber waves

out Imbrium way

on and on they ride beneath

lich of their ancestral home

strange vermin creep there

ash blankets

Amazonia

blessed starscape on

the dark side

endless vibrant night

dwellings cluster thickly here

life forgets the horror past

hairpins scale knife-edged

mountain peaks

now mossed and gentled

leap cautiously now, for fair

Inertia holds sway below

this, the greatest race

on Sol’s green

gem, our only home

end of poem

*A lunegay

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You can't moon over someone
Whom you think you love
On a planet with such a dark dark night
With stars alone to light your way

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How far must I have gone before the chronostat kicked in? The Moo, has almost no craters and the Earth isn't blue yet. There won't be any local repair shops to help fix this piece of junk. I knew buying a used time machine was a bad idea. I should have bought the 4 billion year warranty.

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jumpy cows
colonize the moon?
ah, that's bull

120219b

we've lived beside
this dead planet for so long
domed life seems right

112019d

Pricked by a redwood tree
she became a tree when the moon was full
immobile, she couldn't make a kill
stood right there for a thousand years
at last, she fell in a great wind
crushing several campers
and was freed
only to feel the years
fall upon her in an instant
her last