Two American sentences:
Agnostic, dyslexic insomniacs are identifiable.
They’re always lying awake at night, wondering if there is a Dog.
What’s an ‘American Sentence’?
Allen Ginsberg, inventor of the American Sentence, felt that the haiku didnโt 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.
Let’s write poetry together!
When it comes to partnership, some humans can make their lives alone – it’s possible. But creatively, it’s more like painting: you can’t just use the same colours in every painting. It’s just not an option. You can’t take the same photograph every time and live with art forms with no differences.
–Ben Harper (b. 1969)
Would you like to create poetry with me and have a completed poem of yours featured here at the Skeptic’s Kaddish? I am very excited to have launched the ‘Poetry Partners’ initiative and am looking forward to meeting and creating with you… Check it out!
The Skeptic's Kaddish ๐ฎ๐ฑ 
This is cool. Sent it to my son,
Thank you for the moment of mirth, David.
โบ๏ธ๐ Dolly ๐โบ๏ธ
This be true ๐
๐ Paul ๐
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Ha ha
๐ Andrew ๐
Hehe, very funny. ๐
๐ Carol ๐
Did I rly just waste 3 1/2 minutes of my life on that? ๐ฆ๐
It was totally worth it! Now you’re more attuned to modern nonsense than ever before!
Totally! Life-changing! ๐
๐ค๐ Michele ๐๐ค
laughing.. great one!!!๐๐๐
My silliness got the better of me!
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David
keep it going.. ๐คฃ๐ธ
LOL! Ermahgerd!
๐ ๐ Muri ๐ ๐
I wonder that myself sometimes. (K)
๐ ๐ฅฐ Kerfe ๐ฅฐ ๐
This is pretty dog-damned good!
๐ถ Ron ๐ถ
Terriffic.
This one is pretty straightforward, ya? ๐
Yupper. See, what it was was my mind, so used to MY mistooks, first autocorrected “dog.” Huh? Read again. Damn. Read again, no auto-mocpleet this time. Oh, I see not “god” dummy, “god.”
Woof night’s sleep! ๐๐๐๐
๐คช Ken ๐คช
Lol, true enough. ๐
๐คก Veera ๐คก