The first rule of Sonnet Club is that you do not talk about Sonnet Club.

Message Bookmarked

Bookmark Removed

Deadline: November 30, 2003.
Topic: Autumn, however configured.
Rules: 14 lines, iambic pentameter, rhymed. Write it yourself.
If you want to cheat (yeah, Piuma, I'm looking at you): use however many lines you want, whatever rhythm, rhymed or not. Just do the feel of sonnets.
Judge: History.
Prize: The burning inner light of satisfaction. Plus, chips.

I'm not writing mine until Saturday, probably. Don't rush. Go.

― Sonnetonym (Haikunym), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 16:26 (twenty-two years ago)

as for me I rhyme,
form tradition blah blah blah,
do whatever works

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 16:30 (twenty-two years ago)

shit I thought this Bonnet Club, and I was like, yeah, I wouldn't openly admit to wearing a bonnet either.

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 16:30 (twenty-two years ago)

How long until Sestinanym?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 16:31 (twenty-two years ago)

fuck that shit for real,
sestinas are way too hard.
(answer: December.)

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 16:42 (twenty-two years ago)

While I think that this is a cool idea for a thread, I feel it is a little too time consuming (at least from my perspective). Would you be desperately offended if I started a Haiku club? I think they're more fun and slightly more practical timewise.

― neil simpson (neil simpson), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 16:43 (twenty-two years ago)

do as you must, sir;
as for me every day
is Haiku Club. Boo-ya!

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 16:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Now hold on a minute. First, me n Haikunym need to get the rules straight(http://www.dada.at/geoff/haiku/rules/)

["rules? In a haiku fight?

Ka-Pow!

I was really rooting for ya butch

Well thanks flatface. That's what sustained me in my itme of need"]

― neil simpson (neil simpson), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 16:51 (twenty-two years ago)

time. obv

― neil simpson (neil simpson), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 16:51 (twenty-two years ago)

the only rules that are worthwhile there are 1, 2, 3, 7, 8, 58, and 64. Haiku club should get its own thread.

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 16:55 (twenty-two years ago)

I fear 4 days over thankgiving is not long enough for my slow poetic brane.

― bnw (bnw), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 16:58 (twenty-two years ago)

no fear no die dude, how long does your poor brane need? just write the damn thing!

actually, good point; let's extend the deadline to December Seven.

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 17:01 (twenty-two years ago)

I'll try for the 7th. (Rhyme schemes terrify me though.) Maybe I'll try to write a sonnet about 'fight club'.

― bnw (bnw), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 17:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Subject is autumn.
There will be no argument.
(Fight Club in Autumn?)

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 17:16 (twenty-two years ago)

I could take some time to write a sonnet
But why? Who cares? It's just a bunch syllables
that occasionally rhyme. It's pitiful.
This form is flabby and I spit upon it.
Haiku, at least, feel a bit constrained.
You're forced to be succinct in a blink.
Sestinas make you ruminate and think,
though admittedly the form can be a pain.
But sonnets are a quick paragraph:
A heady thought, a ho-hum laugh,
a splash of shape to look as if you're clever
when really you're just spitting out whatever.
It's a routine, too-familiar sex,
leftovers: Like most posts to ILX.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 17:53 (twenty-two years ago)

I kiss thee.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 17:57 (twenty-two years ago)

With knives?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 17:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Well yes.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 17:59 (twenty-two years ago)

not all sonnets, Chris,
just most sonnets, like most posts.
in that, we agree.

why not shock the world,
write something timeless, deathless,
perfect, lovely, true?

OR, just don't do it,
leave us our foul little fun,
float there on your cloud

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 18:16 (twenty-two years ago)

said with love, you know I think you're aces

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 18:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Obv there are some great sonnets; I have also certainly written my share of sonnets in my day, including some that followed the "rules", even! Still, it's sort of the "We'll be back in two minutes and two" of poetic forms.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 18:19 (twenty-two years ago)

John Keats != Chuck Woolery.

Actually, that's not true.

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 18:21 (twenty-two years ago)

I spent junior year
at Canby High School writing
sonnets in math class

I got pretty good
at doing everything:
rhyme, rhythm, theme.

But that did not mean
that my shit was any good.
I like challenges!

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 18:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Adrienne Rich = Peter Tomarken.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 18:24 (twenty-two years ago)

five months pass...

Also, Percy Bysshe Shelly = Wink Martindale.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 15 May 2004 03:04 (twenty-one years ago)

You must be logged in to post. Please either login here, or if you are not registered, you may register here.