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.
Oulipost #27: Irrational Sonnet
Lewis Oakwood
Exploring The Surrounding Countryside
exploring the surrounding countryside
developing his own work alongside,
and sees as reportage rather than art:
photography as documentary.
form of amusement-engagement in part,
sumptuous lens-angle empathy guide,
nature, the sense of a moment swept wide,
capturing fleeting moments, then depart.
in which he came to find affinity
record of another reality
turning his camera – immortalised;
reportage (change) that has simplicity
which communicates a slice quietly
photographs have captured and organized.
~
I had to create most of the sentences.
(Source – http://www.telegraph.co.uk – The Sense of a Moment: Gianni Berengo Gardin – 27/4/14)
Nathalie (@spacedlaw)
Double sanctification on the menu today (and potholes): http://spacedlaw.dreamwidth.org/139219.html
Jody Rich
“Remembering Her in Springtime” http://jodyrich.wordpress.com/2014/04/27/oulipost-27-irrational-sonnet/
Mildred Achoch
“Shillings and Saints” I’m proud of this one and not just because of the pun
A chance to comment on the huge gap between the rich and the poor in Kenya and also to comment on the nature of a saint. Even a Muslim can be a saint. http://lostincyberspacepoems.blogspot.com/2014/04/oulipost27-shillings-and-saints.html
OULIPOST: Day 27 (irrational sonnet) | jacqueline valencia
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Jacqueline Valencia
Here you go: http://jacquelinevalencia.com/2014/04/27/oulipost-day-27-irrational-sonnet/
Amanda Earl
http://amandaearl.blogspot.ca/2014/04/oulipost-27-irrational-sonnet.html
QUILLFYRE’S #OULIPOST 27 IRRATIONAL SONNET | Quillfyre
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Carol A. Stephen
http://quillfyre.wordpress.com/2014/04/27/quillfyres-oulipost-27-irrational-sonnet/
bruno neiva
FLIES
It is a pleasure to note the existence of another century
of official national minorities, to see their rights, their claims
being used as advertising campaigns to attract visitors.
Welcome Chief Secretary!
See the queer, weather-beaten churches where
localism always works in the same ways,
or takes the same shape in different parts
of the local government system – the true
fascination of renascent regionalism is that it FLIES.
In the face of all known prescriptions
and the danger of old Victorian clichés
about social class, nothing seems more
archaic or hidebound than this solidarity,
this resolute immersion in locale.
Source: Taylor, DJ (2014 April 27). There is a bit of the Cornish separatist in all of us. The Independent. Retrieved from http://www.independent.co.uk/.
Note: Most of the lines were altered, but only a few additions were made.
Joseph Harker
Earlier than I’ve ever done this month, I think: http://namingconstellations.wordpress.com/2014/04/27/oulipost-27-expectant-couple/
Misky
http://miskmask.wordpress.com/2014/04/27/day-27-an-afternoon-at-cat-street-market/
Oulipoem 27: April 27 — The Irrational Sonnet | Margo Roby: Wordgathering
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Mary Sexson
http://masexson.wordpress.com/2014/04/27/172
The Way We Die Now | Whimsygizmo's Blog
[…] Following Margo over to Oulipost, where today’s challenge is an Irrational Sonnet sourced from newspaper lines and divided […]
Kelly Nelson
http://kellynelsonpoet.tumblr.com/post/84042164422/what-he-wore
Trish Hopkinson
About Being
Bob Marcacci
Inhabited
http://marcacci.blogspot.com/2014/04/oulipost-27-irrational-sonnet.html
Mary Sexson
This one works, I think!
http://masexson.wordpress.com/2014/04/27/oulipost-27-irrational-sonnet
Roxanna Bennett
I think I finally found my form (if I am understanding it correctly). Now if I could just learn how to work with metre…
http://marvelist.wordpress.com/2014/04/27/oulipost-27-irrational-sonnet/
Lillian Necakov
Anti Sonnet
http://www.necakovonkandinskyhighway.co.vu/p/oulipost-27.html
Lylanne Musselman
http://lylannemusselman.wordpress.com/2014/04/27/oulipost-27-irrational-sonnet/
Massimo Soranzio
http://massimosoranzio.tumblr.com/post/84065915114/oulipost-27-irrational-sonnet
Nicole
Anyone else excited to write this type of sonnet next year on March 14th? http://decadentdiscourse.blogspot.com/2014/04/oulipost-27-irrational-sonnet.html
Barbara Crary
http://journaloulipo2014.wordpress.com/2014/04/27/oulipost-27-irrational-sonnet/
Nancy Chen Long
Oulipost 27: Irrational sonnet
http://nancychenlong.blogspot.com/2014/04/oulipost-27-irrational-sonnet.html
Martin Elwell
http://martinelwell.wordpress.com/2014/04/27/irrational-sonnet-hunting/
Melanie Wilson
http://jellyfishfloat.com/oulipost-27-irrational-sonnet/
Jennifer Hamilton (@lockedrooms)
http://lockedrooms.tumblr.com/post/84076124134/oulipost-27-irrational-sonnet
Richard Thompson
Rational lapdance: a sonnet: http://indignatio-miceelf.blogspot.com/2014/04/rational-lapdance-sonnet.html
E. Kristin Anderson
http://ekaoulipost.tumblr.com/post/84077327900/april-27-so-dont-feed-the-bears-and-dont-party
Katy
http://somethingkaty.blogspot.com/2014/04/oulipost-27-irractional-sonnet.html
Maribeth Theroux
http://maribeththeroux.com/2014/04/27/oulipost-poem-27-a-nearby-residential-street/
Oulipost, Day 27 – Irrational Sonnet | cloudberrytattoo
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Sonja Johanson
http://cloudberrykisses.wordpress.com/2014/04/28/oulipost-day-27-irrational-sonnet/
james w. moore
agh! it’s posted! agh:
http://jameswmoore.wordpress.com/2014/04/27/oulipost-27-the-puppys-peer-review/
Kathy Moore
http://eduk8te.wordpress.com/2014/04/27/oulipost-27-a-novel-mashup/
Elizabeth Evans
It’s getting wierd in a circular way. Today’s Oulipost on my blog is a remix of the article on Oulipost that ran in today’s local paper. Though I cheated a bit. It was a local paper, but not the one I usually work from. But — who could resist? http://atreebythestream.wordpress.com/2014/04/28/ouliopost-27-irrational-sonnet-14-digit-remix/
Sierra Ortega
http://pocket-change.tumblr.com/post/84101885738/oulipost-27-irrational-sonnet
Eugenia Hepworth Petty
Finally back to my lush imagery!
http://glittergirl59.wordpress.com/2014/04/28/oulipost-27-irrational-sonnet/
Douglas Luman
http://oulipost.douglasjluman.com/insurance/
Winston
‘UniVerse’ (A rhyming, one word per line irrational sonnet)
http://www.winstonplowes.co.uk/#/oulipost-27/4584194800
Kristina McDonald
http://kmacpoetry.wordpress.com/2014/04/27/oulipost-27-irrational-sonnet/
Thomas Hintze
http://consumersafety.tumblr.com/post/84279856021/oulipost-27-drones
Matt Trease
http://ouliposting.wordpress.com/2014/04/30/oulipost-27-irrational-sonnet/