Jisei – The Skeptic's Kaddish 🇮🇱

Every new, or: Last verse

January 14, 2023January 13, 2023 ben Alexander13 Comments

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 didn’t work as well in English. Ginsberg decided to remove the line structure of the haiku, maintaining the requirement of 17 syllables total.… Continue reading Every new, or: Last verse

Limerick, or: Jisei

October 23, 2021October 23, 2021 ben Alexander26 Comments

A sad limerick "Come! You -must- write me," the death poem said. "Please, dip your quill, lest you're found dead." Mort was much too frail and tired... 'Twas then he died, feeling inspired... So, his weeping jisei wrote itself instead.