Nicely done. Eastern Montana has a BIG sky. I live in the west snuggled between mountains.
I loved the openness of Kansas... one reason why I'm going back to Isan in Thailand. "A little bit of who I am" resonates with wide open agricultural areas.
Off to school we go
to learn a lot of new stuff
and meet some new friends,
exploring academics
and social life at same time.
Friday night sock hops
release all that energy
when homework is done.
The Skinny is an exercise in language compression invented by African American poet Truth Thomas in the Tony Medina Poetry Workshop at Howard University. The intent of the form is to create "a vivid image with as few words as possible".
The structure consists of eleven lines. The first line is repeated in the last line, possible with words rearranged. Lines 2 - 10 contain only one word. The word in line 2 is also repeated as lines 6 and 10, as described and demonstrated in the following links:
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