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Your feet, bare and wet on the flagstones. So more erotic than those breasts.
isn't that 2 sentences?
Rainy night on Union Square, full moon. Want more poems? Wait till I'm dead.
He stands at the church steps a long time looking down at new white sneakers—
Determined, goes in the door quickly to make his Sunday confession.
From the first page, an example with multiple sentences:
And one with multiple 17 syllable lines:
12? not sure if it needs more or, like ku, can be shorter. *goes back to look at OP*my first
Impressed by the word play that comes from your minds guys.
12? not sure if it needs more or, like ku, can be shorter. *goes back to look at OP*
Ok, which is more important: form or content? If it works, has 17 syllables, is poetic then why not make more than one sentence.
If you're asking my opinion, I think it's content.
This form is so malleable that it justifies anything. You can make multiple sentences, you can make multi-line, anything goes, it seems. I've managed to get away with an "american wall of text" on the 30 in 30, which was not good poetry, but still.
To me, it has the same feeling of a haiku, but where the haiku severely limits what you can say, due to the 5-7-5 scheme, the 17 syllable feels natural for a complete sentence, and it's easy to "pad" a sentence to fit if you're desperate.
The best american sentences I've seen had some kind of twist in them. Something like:
<statement>; <quirky remark>.
Followed by a <ba-dum-tsh!>
woops yep..only 12 I thought I'd gone through five fingers three times but it seems like I did not
better?? lol
Hamster competition: the wheel in my cage can go faster than yours.
lol made me smile
Everyone has seen a rainbow, but for me it means the sun has came out.
Hamster competition: the wheel in my cage can go faster than yours.
the bones of all old houses creak; some are sad - others ache, contented.
A rainbow requires rain to exist... People fixate on their beauty. Interesting, I never thought of them as a marker that the "sun" has come out. Cool AS, UnderYourSpell.
And funny... My intuitive syllable counter sees 3 syllables in "everyone" (e-very-one; I think when I speak it out loud, it sounds a bit like e-vree-one ).
That's actually a pretty cool image... Some people might see themselves as caged, doing something that holds no meaning. Hm. It wasn't silly in my eyes.
If my house starts creaking, I'm moving out, no matter whether it is sad or contented.
Edit:
If my house starts creaking, whether it's sad or content, I'm moving out.
Haha.
A rainbow requires rain to exist... People fixate on their beauty. Interesting, I never thought of them as a marker that the "sun" has come out. Cool AS, UnderYourSpell.
And funny... My intuitive syllable counter sees 3 syllables in "everyone" (e-very-one; I think when I speak it out loud, it sounds a bit like e-vree-one ).
That's actually a pretty cool image... Some people might see themselves as caged, doing something that holds no meaning. Hm. It wasn't silly in my eyes.
If my house starts creaking, I'm moving out, no matter whether it is sad or contented.
Edit:
If my house starts creaking, whether it's sad or content, I'm moving out.
Haha.