{end rhymes for an unwritten sonnet}

 

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Lately, I have been reconsidering sonnets. In the nineties I obsessed over the form, getting lost in generating basic sonnet series, then elaborate sonnet sequences, and finally falling into the complex sonnet crown concept. There exists a potential for elaborate design when (un)making these types of poems. Each page ends up holding a square-ish shape that transforms across multiple pages, a slow metamorphosis unfolding right in front of the reader.  In my first book, Variations on a Theme of Desire, one section in particular displays twenty such poems, all linked by a fragmentation of conscious / unconscious thoughts, a blurring, if you will, across different moments of time in the poet-speaker’s head.

Below is a listing of rhyming sounds that could work overtime— there is a possibility at work here which warrants some experimentation. Beginning with an established path of rhymes allows a stronger visceral approach to the finished product. Letting instinct control the outcome.

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Moon
Moan
Mutter

Clutter
Crevasse               /Crevice
Concise                 /Place

Precise
Precipice
Fracture
Flutter

Fluster
Glacier                  /Molar                  /Moor
Gravitate             /Cluster                /Matter
Motivate              /Matter                /Mute  

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“The sonnet I see now, is not and never has been a form at all in any fixed sense other than that incident upon a certain turn of the mind” (182). 

                William Carlos Williams, on reading the sonnets of Merrill Moore from the book 
                The Making of a Sonnet, Edited by Edward Hirsch and Eavan Boland

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burning bridges— https://fragmentedportrait.blogspot.com/