Right, now I owe three poems. So this Day Six NaPoWriMo prompt helped:
Today’s optional prompt is to write a lune. A lune is a sort of English-language variation on the haiku, meant to better render the tone of the Japanese haiku than the standard 5-7-5 format we all learned (and maybe loved) in elementary school. There are a couple of variants on the lune form, but just to keep things simple, let’s try the version developed by Jack Collum. His version of the lune involves a three-line stanza. The first line has three words. The second line has five, and the third line has three. You can write a poem that consists of just one stanza, or link many lune-stanzas together into a unified poem.
We went to the Rhine
And sat there with lunch, talking.
This was where I died.
My heart was brand-new
But my soul had been blended.
It was time to choose.
We are all dying-
What is a little haste, then,
To begin again?
Life's little mercies 