NaPoWriMo Day Twenty-Six: Hot Summer Day and Art Like a Soji

Hot Summer Day

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

Thou art 


         too hot 

heidi

Art Like a Soji

a summer's day art? more lovely and more temperate.

summer's Sometime too hot And often is gold And fair, fair
nature's eternal summer shall brag So long as men can breathe

heidi

written 4/26/13 for 

Original poem

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? (Sonnet 18)

  by William Shakespeare

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date.
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimmed;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,
Nor shall death brag thou wand'rest in his shade,
When in eternal lines to Time thou grow'st.
     So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
     So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

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Today I have two small submissions. The NaPoWriMo prompt was to write and erasure poem. There have been many Shakespeare posts up lately since his birthday was this month, and I decided to try an erasure poem on Sonnet 18. To be honest, I had to put my netbook down for a minute because my first attempt tickled me so much.

The second one was inspired by the Form For All: From Out of Asia by Samuel Peralta on dVerse. Sam writes about the Korean form Soji. It is beautiful and interesting and I tried to create one by erasing Sonnet 8 and what I got was not a Soji. But I like what happened, so I thought I would let you read it too. I have put the Soji form in my notebook and will tackle it again soon.

Thanks for reading. Check out Poets.org, where you can find this copy of Sonnet 18, and other wonderful poetry.