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5-word sentences

October 11, 2017 by szachik@pvs.org 2 Comments

By Brennan Nick

This sentence has five words.

This also has five words.

Five word sentences are fun.

They can be interesting, too.

Here is a short story.

There once was a boy.

This boy was drinking milk.

He was also eating lunch.

His day was going well.

But, tragedy struck right then.

He moved his hand carelessly.

This motion spilled his milk.

He then cried and cried.

His mother heard the crying.

She rushed to help him.

She thought it was serious.

Reality was far from that.

She simply cleaned the milk.

She got him more milk.

Thankfully, the crisis was averted.

Five-word sentences are fun.

They can be interesting, too.

However, they are very simple.

When strung together it’s tiresome.

When in abundance, they’re monotonous.

They lack the needed details.

They lack the needed variety.

Five word sentences are not fun.

 

Editors: Claire Jenkins & Peter Kadel

 

Filed Under: Poetry Tagged With: Brennamic Pentameter, line length

Comments

  1. Charles Schnell says

    October 11, 2017 at 8:39 pm

    This post is very creative.

    I like it a lot.

    You did a good job.

    Okay now I am done.

    Reply
  2. kenny sarkis says

    October 12, 2017 at 3:34 am

    Brendan teaches a valuable lesson.

    Reply

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