Le Voyage Magnifique

Military Service

Military service means
sacrifice
family
absence
struggle
sacrifice
danger
battle
death
sacrifice
military service means

Notes on the Skinny form of poetry ▶︎

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:

https://theskinnypoetryjournal.wordpress.com/2015/09/25/poetry-form-matters-trut...

https://www.laurasalas.com/poems-for-teachers/skinny-poems-poetry-princesses-poe... .