Leopards don’t ever change their spots, or was I asleep when you changed yours?
(#the American sentence)
©Vivian Zems
Paul Hosts dVerse tonight with the prompt being- Change
American Sentences as a poetic form was Allen Ginsberg’s effort to make American the haiku. If haiku is seventeen syllables going down in Japanese text, he would make American Sentences seventeen syllables going across; linear.
Smell The Coffee 
November 27, 2017 at 2:11 pm
Good one! Been there myself! 😉
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November 27, 2017 at 6:02 pm
😊
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November 27, 2017 at 5:10 pm
this is excellent title to start a fresh week!!
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November 27, 2017 at 6:01 pm
Thanks, Mihran😊
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November 27, 2017 at 11:06 pm
Yep! I can relate!. Good writing.
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November 27, 2017 at 11:41 pm
Thank you! 😊
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November 28, 2017 at 12:17 am
Good one Vivian! Thanks for sharing with Micropoetry Month!!!
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November 28, 2017 at 12:24 am
Thanks, Rajani!
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November 28, 2017 at 10:30 pm
Howlingly good! One version of Haiku that I teach is the linear. 17 is 17, period. Nice job!
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November 28, 2017 at 10:42 pm
Good job on the American sentence!
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November 29, 2017 at 1:04 am
Great American sentence. You made 17 syllables say a lot!
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November 29, 2017 at 5:43 am
Thank you! 🙂
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November 29, 2017 at 1:44 am
Interesting! I’d never heard of this form before. Very different from haiku but I do love a short poem!
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November 29, 2017 at 5:42 am
Thanks! Apparently, 17 syllables in one sentence….looks like fun 🙂
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November 29, 2017 at 2:36 am
An excellent American Sentence effortlessly capturing one’s interest ~
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November 29, 2017 at 5:40 am
Thanks, Grace!
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November 29, 2017 at 5:06 am
I do like it, especially when put as a question.
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November 29, 2017 at 5:39 am
Thank you 🙂
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November 29, 2017 at 11:57 am
Fabulous example of the American sentence. What happened indeed?
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November 29, 2017 at 8:11 pm
I’d never heard of the ‘American Sentence’ before. Thank you, Vivian!
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November 30, 2017 at 8:50 pm
I’m glad you enjoyed it 😊. Thank you!
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November 29, 2017 at 10:45 pm
Maybe he was really a chameleon in disguise!
Dwight
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November 30, 2017 at 12:43 am
Very very likely! 🙂 🙂
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November 30, 2017 at 4:14 am
Thanks for sharing this form. It is new to me. Your question is a good one-liner, too.
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November 30, 2017 at 7:41 am
Thank you! 😊
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