The prompt:
Create a 14-line sonnet sourced from lines from your newspaper that is divided according to the first five digits of the irrational number pi – that is, into stanzas of 3, 1, 4, 1 and 5 lines. As with the preceding sonnet assignment (see April 14) you may interpret “sonnet” as formally or as loosely as you wish.
The process:
I just started looking for iambic pentameter. I pulled pieces of lines and full lines themselves. It was quite difficult. The paper was full but since I've been baking all day...my mine is blank. I did change some tense and as with yesterdays poem, I wanted it to say something. Something that stands up.
The result:
A theory that just might explain origin
Learning their lines by heart, they soar, they sear
They linger in the memory, he died
It’s a small group of sympathetic friends
The scene was telling, and fairly typical
It felt charged with impact, streaming with light
Stop, look closely and you will see beauty
The interplay of cultures is the theme
Tell the world what the government has done
But one rich sector might just prove elusive
It never stops, this sort of unceasing
On the hunt for the next generation
Villains who are victims of circumstance
Bold, creative acts of innovation
Bigger, stronger people will come, after
Source:
Several articles from The Boston Globe & The Globe Magazine. 27 April 2014. Sections A-N. Print.
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