American Sentences

Angeline · Aug 3, 2019

Look at the moonlight, scattered silver on the lake. Poetry shines there.

Tzara · Aug 6, 2019

Maple leaves swirl down onto a perfectly mowed lawn. Where's my damn rake?

Angeline · Aug 6, 2019

Tzara said:
Maple leaves swirl down onto a perfectly mowed lawn. Where's my damn rake?

Just wait a few more months and you'll be set. Your lawn will be leaves of grass.

Or should that be "grass of leaves"?

UnderYourSpell · Aug 7, 2019

My heart explodes and sings with happiness, when you whisper that you love me.

Tzara · Aug 27, 2019

Pretend I have left a letter for you, in your new house, welcoming.

captainman2018 · Aug 27, 2019

I'll Suck Yours If You Suck Mine

She took off her top and flashed those huge breasts with a smile while watching me.

Piscator · May 9, 2020

The Rule of Appropriation

It is always better to be part of the dominant/winning side.

Piscator · Jun 8, 2021

I'll stay on the surface level and not look for what
lies underneath.

HarryHill · Jan 25, 2022

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She was tall, taller than most, a willow. I became arboreal.
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Angeline · Jan 26, 2022

Bedlam

Amid shouts and relentless cries for help, I wear earplugs and write poems.

Tzara · Jan 27, 2022

Angeline said:
Bedlam

Amid shouts and relentless cries for help, I wear earplugs and write poems.

I like that you treat "poems" as bisyllabic, as well it should be.

Angeline · Jan 27, 2022

Tzara said:
I like that you treat "poems" as bisyllabic, as well it should be.

Thank you for bringing this form to us. :rose:

I want to write more American Sentences. It's a marvelous form that is distinctly American imo, very flexible. Like its Eastern parent Haiku, it allows one to say so much with few well-chosen words.

Now I just need my muse to wake up, have some coffee and help me out.

HarryHill · Jan 27, 2022

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Wondering while searching for you if I should whisper softly or scream.
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Lyricalli · Jan 27, 2022

Estrangement

Reading is hard, writing harder, and I'm lost amongst words that aren't there.

Piscator · Jan 27, 2022

I recycled old reprints today, remnants of past times - am I next?

Angeline · Jan 27, 2022

Let Chaos Rain

Let snow squall. Sir Neville is conducting orderly Bach, just for me.

Angeline · Jan 28, 2022

Once Upon a Time

Snow skies above the frozen Delaware. Saturdays we skated there.

Tzara · Jan 29, 2022

Angeline said:
Let Chaos Rain

Let snow squall. Sir Neville is conducting orderly Bach, just for me.

I want my life to be as orderly as music by J. S. Bach.

Variation on a Theme of Angeline, with hopes of it becoming a fugue.

Angeline · Jan 29, 2022

Irony

Wrote this American Sentence after reading of feudal Asia.

Angeline · Jan 29, 2022

Tzara said:
I want my life to be as orderly as music by J. S. Bach.

Variation on a Theme of Angeline, with hopes of it becoming a fugue.

I aimed for Bach but I ended up somewhere between Duke and Jimi.

Better a fugue than a fug, eh? Or maybe not.

Angeline · Jan 29, 2022

Abominable Snowstorm

In Maine this would be a middling storm. In Jersey? Fuggedaboudit!

HarryHill · Jan 29, 2022

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Prayer for a Cat

Shadows and sunlight in the afterlife, yarn, string and slow running mice.
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oneblueye · Jan 29, 2022

hey...

Tomorrow

the product of what we said Yesterday ---,
and what we have done Today.

Angeline · Jan 29, 2022

Advice From A Five-Year-Old

Even if you cry a little, you can think about potato chips.

HarryHill · Jan 29, 2022

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Salvation

Fresh coffee on! View from the bottom dregs of a very empty cup.
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