[Newspoetry] Nine Haiku Blank Verse HyperSonnet

[Paul Kotheimer]

	The Nine-Haiku Blank Verse HyperSonnet

(wherein | denotes a haiku line break and || denotes a new haiku.

ideally, works in this form published at newspoetry.com would have a funky
rollover function which would change the layout of the poem from sonnet
line-breaks to haiku line-breaks... i entrust the particulars to the
technological giants which have made our website great.  

This particular example cheats a little bit by sticking a three-syllable
foot into line seven instead of an iamb.  many apologies to the muses of
meter, but it does provide the added effect of two so-called
"masculine-ending" lines instead of just one, which in turn makes for the
"feel" of a closing couplet--for whatever that's worth).


I've done the math, and | found that nine haikus will
fit | on the sonnet's plate. || Nine seventeens are |
one hundred fifty-three--That's | one beat shy of,
say, || if you take fourteen | iambic lines with
the ends | all feminine-ized. || Think in numbers,
and | sacrifice the sense of what | it is you've
just said.  || Worthy notions make, | sometimes, the foulest
results, | so why continue? || Why continue
on, | thinking you've invented some | new form if
it sucks? || but then you're almost | at the end of
the puzzle | and it's just a draft || for William
and Dirk | to convolute their verses | into
new shapes with. || Rules are rules are rules | are rules.
Haiku is not the | place to fuck with forms.

--Paul Kotheimer

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