Thursday, May 27, 2010

A Lune at Last

Today Slam Poet did a competition with my students featuring lunes, eleven word poems. Kind of the American version of haiku, they are arranged in lines of three-five-three words. "If you can write a good lune, you can write anything," he told the kids. "A lune should be a tiny three act play or an entire story in eleven words." Of course they rose to the challenge.

Here's one of mine:

How come my
dad was nothing like Kurt's
dad on Glee?

2 comments:

  1. I SO LOVE Kurt's dad on Glee. I mean, I pretty much love everything about Glee, but his dad just freakin' rocks. I actually have an upcoming post planned about him!

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  2. I know, right? Kurt's dad is definitely my favorite character.

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