Sunday, March 17, 2013

American Sentences

The first writing  exercise in Ordinary Genius is entitled "American Sentences".  American sentence is a poetic form created by a man named Allen Ginsberg who, basically, believed in the mantra "condense, condense, condense", but felt that the haiku format did not work as well in English as it did in Japanese.  And thus the American sentence was born: one sentence, seventeen syllables.
Here are a few I came up with:

  • We looked down on skyscrapers and suddenly the world seemed minuscule.
  • She lusted to travel to new exotic cities she had read about.
  • His staccato kisses filled her with wicked desire, always.
  • The lights of twinkling galaxies shined below in celestial glory.
  • Trickling lines of nostalgic melody transport to a gilded past.

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