Three for Odin
Some nights I just can’t sleep and tonight was one of them. So since i’m reading a book of sonnets by Edna St. Vincent Millay, I decided to look up the sonnet form. I don’t think i’ve ever written one. While checking that out, I came across a modern invention first seen in the mid 1980s: word sonnets. These are small sonnets where instead of 14 lines in a particular rhyme scheme, there are 14 words, each word a single line (–a traditional sonnet typically has 14 lines.). I decided to try my hand at it and it’s more difficult than I thought but I managed three.
I.
Gnawing
fire
I
cast
myself
aloft,
and
fell
a
laughing
cinder
into
my
gods.
II.
gore
eyed
god
spat
down
from
the
Tree,
croaking
worlds–
I
came
into
being.
III.
laughing
burning
it
is
all
the
same.
bloody
knowledge
is
the
fruit
of
pain.
Posted on March 18, 2016, in Odin, Poetry, Uncategorized and tagged Odin, poetry, word sonnets. Bookmark the permalink. 4 Comments.
These are fabulous!
It would be an interesting challenge to then write a sonnet with these words as the beginning words of the fourteen lines…! 😉
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lol it wouldn’t fit the rhyme scheme of a proper sonnet. i’d have to fiddle with it.
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But isn’t the sonnet rhyme scheme based on end-rhymes? If these were the words that started the lines, rather than being the rhyming words, that could work…right? (It’s been a while since I’ve done a sonnet…)
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a normal sonnet has a couple of different end rhymes to it. I see what you mean though..i could make that work. I’m not ready to attack a proper sonnet yet. lol. I’m having too much fun with word sonnets
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