I’m putting them ahead in the rotation, because I like them.  I’m planning for 2 but I may include 3 or more.  “Today’s” sonnet will arrive after that.  I’ll let it drop before I post another.  I like to be ahead a ways; on the other hand, if I get too far ahead, I think I’ll start going back in time in some way.  Perhaps, I’ll add some of the backlog and push the dates of everything else back.  If I really wanted to write two or more a day.  Then I could ultimately push the “start” date of the sonnet page back by years, if I wanted.  That would be something.  It would be as if I had not wasted as much of my life.  That’s something anyone would wish for.  My guess now, though, is that it will happen some, but not religiously.  Although one never knows.

I guess not

Not exactly teen, but pretty angsty.  A word or two changed from the original.  I’m more picky these days.  But mostly unchanged from then.

I wrote about one thing, but now it seems it was about two, I think. What a quite strange day this has been for one to mourn. I have everything. Even still, I mourn. I know we are in danger, but no one can see. Synchronicity. It goes on all around me. I watch it happen. I feel it moving through my life and other lives. It ticks like a clock.

I wrote about one thing, but now it seems it was about two. How strange. It’s a dark morning. Darker than I’ve ever seen. Black as a dark soul. Dark as death, not night. It’s morning. There’s no sunlight. It’s a dark morning.

I wrote about one thing, but now, it seems, it was about two. It’s dark. I can see a star. That’s the only light I see. It’s not bright enough.

I wrote about one thing, but now, it seems, it was about two. So dark.

I have reversed the dates on the most recent sequence of four sonnets, and their introductions.  I believe I’ll do that with the rest as well.  They’ll still post in date order until a sequence is done.    Once I’m sure the next is not, or will now be, part of the sequence, I will reverse the dates so they scroll in order.  That should make things easier to read.

Update:

I have now done the same to all the old sequences.

This was all about an experiment to see how haiku and sonnets would synchronize. This was very enjoyable, but certainly took quite more time than normal. Although it wasn’t as painful as some, because I constructed it in steps. What follows is the evolution of the project over six steps.  I have redone the dates on the blog entries so they scroll down the page, in much the same way as I make sure the intro is above each sonnet and not below it.  I think I may start doing that with sequences as well.  But not until tomorrow!

One Note:

Iambic pentameter, Sonnet form and Haiku form:

One Haiku has 17 syllables; 17 is a prime number. Sonnets have 140 syllables (in 14 lines) 140 has three prime factors: 2, 5, and 7. Therefore 8 Haiku will fit into a sonnet, but not evenly. There will be a remainder of 4 syllables. Due to 17 having no smaller factors than 17, (excluding 1) and certainly no common factors with 140 The only even occurrences of iambic pentameter (which has 10 syllables per line) with Haiku form will be in multiples of 170. Or every 17 lines of iambic pentameter. So a seventeen line sonnetesque creation could contain exactly 10 haiku. I may just write one of those; but not until I recover from this most recent exercise. Not exactly a sonnet, but similar, with three extra lines; Three quatrains with a quintet on or about the Volta, perhaps. Or even 4 quatrains and one solitary line, either not rhyming at all, or perhaps picking some ending in the last quatrain to rhyme.

1. Step 1 was done first,
2. Then reformatted as step 2
3. Next I copied 1 and 2 to 3 and 4 respectively.
4. After that, I pretty much had the two adjacent steps up at the same time in window, side by side.
5. Next I removed the hyphenated words from both versions, taking care to make the same modifications to both.
6. After that, copying both 3 and 4 to 5 and 6, I started adding the main rhyme scheme.  I didn’t preserve steps for that, although I probably have some revision history I could dig up, but I’ve worked enough on this one already.
7. Then it was about changing words for better flow and internal rhymes as a way to tie it all more closely together.
8. I usually revisit all my sonnets after at least one sleep period, and make a few changes and try to catch errors.  (I’m not the most observant editor, though, so it takes me a few cracks at it to find errors.  And in the meantime, A few word changes will occur to me as I’m doing this.

Things always evolve.
Without investigating,
it feels like haiku,

written more strictly,
don’t break up separate thoughts
on separate lines.

On the other hand,
sonnets can be much more strict
without doing this.

The stricture of both
would yield an intense pressure
when mixed together.

Integral numbers
of haiku would never fit
Inside a sonnet.

It’s really too bad
because it would be awesome
if that were the case.

Instead, you must write
eight haiku that are complete
and then you are stuck

with four syllables;
Unless you write a sonnet
Ending with the word

Etcetera.