Wednesday, July 1, 2009

3WW (Collapse, Sweet, Yearn): American Sentence

American Sentences: They are haiku-length poems that Allen Ginsburg suggested be limited to 17 syllables, like haiku in Japanese and like the Heart Sutra in Buddhism. The following two sentences are such American Sentences of 17 syllables.

(So, I decided to post 2...)

After eighteen hours awake, I yearn to collapse into sweet grape sheets.

She yearned to collapse his sweet soft skull with a hammer from his garage.

6 comments:

Daily Panic said...

purple is my favorite color. this would be hard for me to write. Kudos to you!

Thom Gabrukiewicz said...

Interesting take between the two. One sweet, one sinister. Love it.

Ritual

Tumblewords: said...

I can more firmly bond with the second. :) Nice work - both!

lissa said...

wow! two very contrasting american sentence, I like the one about the grape color sheets, I wonder what great injustice that he did that would cause her to think that way

Megha said...

I can't imagine being sleepless.
Happy Blogging :)

http://fullofcherries.blogspot.com/2009/07/victory.html

PJD said...

The second makes me laugh. Is that sick or what?