An American sentence
Personal relationships with higher powers cannot be conveyed.
What’s an ‘American Sentence’?
Allen Ginsberg, inventor of the American Sentence, felt that the haiku didn’t work as well in English. Ginsberg decided to remove the line structure of the haiku, maintaining the requirement of 17 syllables total. He felt that removing the line count freed the American Sentence up for the idiosyncrasies of English phonemes.
The requirements:
- Composed in one line;
- Syllabic, 17 syllables;
- Condensed, written with no unnecessary words or articles;
- Complete sentence or sentences;
- Includes a turn or enlightenment.
The Skeptic's Kaddish 🇮🇱 
I think the most complicated. 🙂
😍 Terveen 😍
That keeps personal relationships in their correct place–personal. (K)
😍 Kerfe 😍 – exactly!
deities brings back in the anthropomorphism I thought we had parted with, David?
I’m just allowing for people’s various beliefs
My point is: let’s say that some higher power exists… And let’s say that it is possible to have a relationship with it… Such a relationship cannot be described with any accuracy because it’s entirely within the individual. No other human being can be certain that a higher power which is speaking to them is the same higher power as the one speaking to another person.
This is like a double cheese pizza with two extra helpings of cheese 😉 and btw here’s my next poem:
Love it ❣️
Personal and private to me are interchangeable. And conveying the private makes it public. And public is not always the better option!
Words of wisdom 💖
I agree with this so much.
🧡 Lauren 🧡
Another great American sentence.
💛 Molly 💛
Personal relationships with higher powers cannot be conveyed.
I have such a relationship but I could not truly explain it.
Explained,described,transferred,
Exactly.
🙈🙉🙊
the pudding
of my higher power’ –
proof in the not-speaking
Amen & very clever 🤗
thank you; trouble is I kept thinking of what in my native language is pudding – custard or choc mousse and kept getting cravings. So much for HP 😀
hey david can you tell the meaning of this one?
Kunjal!
Which part is confusing to you, Kunjal?
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David
I think i got it. i read some comments down below😃.
some relationships are too inexplicable!
i think i have very few of such relationships but yes i do! and i read it wrong! but now i read it correct!
when someone asks how is this person something to you then. i just have no words.😃
i just gawk and gesticulate hoping to make some sense.
Higher power= supernatural being
It’s not about relationships with human beings, Kunjal. It’s about relationships with our respective dieties…
oh ok. well it is all abt learning😅😃!thanks for telling.!!