An American sentence:
Defeated, the abused wife returned her friends’ apartment key and left.
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!
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It’s heart wrenching.. happens more than I like.. so sad David!
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๐ Cindy ๐
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Can’t bear to like this one.
๐ Limp ๐ ~ nor I
I hope she finds her way. Thank you for sharing.
๐ฆ ๐ Molly ๐ ๐ฆ ~ me too…
Sad one…
๐ค Terveen ๐ค ~ devastating to me
God bless us everyone
๐ Annette ๐ ~ I’ve not experienced any of that in my lived experience, sadly ๐ฆ
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๐ ๐ฆ Amber ๐ฆ ๐
In a frozen marriage, even an abused wife must wait for signs of Spring
๐ Tricia ๐ ~ indeed…
Too sad.
๐ฆ ๐ Misky ๐ ๐ฆ