An American sentence:
The most brilliant verses intoxicate us with childlike wonder.
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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I wholeheartedly agree!!
๐๐๐ป Muri ๐๐ป๐
just like this one well done David!
๐๐๐ป Cindy ๐๐ป๐
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Its’ true, so much wisdom packed into one sentence;
โค๏ธ๐๐ป Michaรซl ๐๐ปโค๏ธ
This is a stunner and I love how true this statement is. ๐ฅฐ
๐๐๐ป Colleen ๐๐ป๐
So true!
๐ Annette ๐ ~ thanks
Or both, has a nice ring to it.
๐ Andrew ๐ ~ indeed!
Excellent writing, David. ๐๐
๐ Suzette, thanks! ๐
Wanderess Wanderess
Magic, too Wonderful-
Brilliant writing emanates from a private activity; letters written in the solitude of your study, inscribing the feelings of your mind, knowing that your letter will become the reading matter of someone else- the enchanted reader, intoxicated with childlike wonder.
๐ Abi ๐ ~ thank you as always!
Beautiful
๐ Sadje, thank you ๐
Youโre welcome
For sure they do!
๐ Ingrid ๐ ~ right!?