NaPoWriMo 2016

Day 1 - Fools

Day 1: poem prompts were: to write a poem with some definition of fool in it.
From the NaPoWriMo.net site - the prompt was a challenge you to write a lune. This is a sort of English-language haiku. While the haiku is a three-line poem with a 5-7-5 syllable count, the lune is a three-line poem with a 5-3-5 syllable count. There’s also a variant based on word-count, instead of syllable count, where the poem still has three lines, but the first line has five words, the second line has three words, and the third line has five words again. Either kind will do, and you can write a one-lune poem, or write a poem consisting of multiple stanzas of lunes.

I played with this one this morning in a notebook. First I did an Acronym of FOOLS....

Forgotten
Ophs
Ordinarily
Lie
Stupidly

I tried a few others as well, but another attempt I liked was this:

Wisdom slips
         Like melted butter
                   It drips and slides
                             Leaving a mess
                                       That resembles
                                                 Only a fool.

To try a lune:
5-3-5 with words as the syllable counts...

Watch a man fall flat
Pick his words
And try to be smart.

That covers the lune and the topic of fools.

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