An American sentence:
What if a poet were to pen his every new verse as a jisei?
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)
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The Skeptic's Kaddish ๐ฎ๐ฑ 
Maybe we should just strive to be more presentโI think thatโs a better way of acknowledging that tomorrow may not come. (K)
๐๐๐ป Kerfe ๐๐ป๐ ~ awareness of mortality helps me with that
Iโm not sure when I started just knowing that today could be all there isโฆmaybe it shows up with the accumulation of years. (K)
Thatโs a provocative interrogative American Sentence. ๐
๐๐๐ป CES ๐๐ป๐ ~ haha! I see what you did there ๐
You *asked* for it. ๐
Hopefully, they’d never meet their end. Nice one, David. ๐
๐ค๐๐ป Terveen ๐๐ป๐ค ~ all things must…
Jisei
With a wrap that is surreal
Not a word of a lie
The finality note affected me immensely
Crystal Clear cuts deeply.
๐งก๐๐ป Abi ๐๐ป๐งก
๐งก
That would be a long slow death…
๐๐๐ป Muri ๐๐ป๐ ~ I was thinking of it as treating every moment like it could be your last