An American sentence:
It’s human nature to perceive agency in life’s complexity.
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.
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 🇮🇱 
True, and as Aryeh Kaplan remarked, “If you believe, I can offer you many proofs of the existence of G-d, but if you don’t, none of them will convince you.”
I think he was right.
Intuition is the agency that simplifies complexity. 🙂
Excellent!
The inspiration was you Guest Post by Albert Einstein and your American sentence in this post.
🙂
I know 🙂
Your intuition blabbed. 🙂
Thank you David. A philophical point worthy of thoughtful pause.
💝 Suzette 💝
Wonderful.
💞 Molly 💞
Love the chosen illustration – the interplay of the words with the (what looks to me as) nerve cells. Thought becomes action…
💚 Muri 💚 ~ that is how I interpreted it too!
No argument here!
😉 Good!