Shakespearean Sonnet Machine

The Shakespearean Sonnet Machine (also here) spits out endless variations of Shakespeare’s 154 sonnets. Well, not quite endless, but there should be 562,448,656 different ones in there if you’re patient enough to keep reloading.

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Notes:

1. I made this on August 16th-August 18th, 2023
2. This works best with the Luminari font.
3. Which can probably be downloaded form plenty of places
4. But I have no idea whats genuine and whats a scam in the world of font websites
5. Sorry.
6. I cut and pasted the sonnets from this collection at Project Gutenberg. Hopefully I haven’t accidently added any errors.
7. Occasionally this throws up an irregular sonnet, which is due to Shakespeare himself deciding for some reason to depart from his meticulous form on a couple of occasions – Sonnet 99 has 5 (five!) lines in the first quatrain, and then Sonnet 126 doesn’t even have quatrains at all, and is just 6 rhyming couplets in a row. Stupid bloody Shakespeare.
8. There’s also probably hundreds of these sorts of things all across the internet but I haven’t actually checked.
9. I apologise for my likely unoriginality anyway.

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Tales From The Town #97: Confessions Of A Poet

“I am not a poet”, said Tina, irritatingly. “I just write poems.”

“Urgh,” said Claire. “Just… urgh!

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Notes:

1. Written in 2022 sometime
2. Sorry I cannot be more precise than that

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Tales From The Town #93: Poems From Minor Characters

#1: The Spider

scuttling across ceilings
spitting at me
all my splendid children
demand to be free

#2: The Cat

only in sleep
are we truly ourselves
and no one is themself
more often than me

#3: A Crow

you cannot
you will not
ever
scare
me

#4: David

My beard is like a tangled bush
filled with cobwebs
and bees
rotting fruit
and sparrow’s nests
crisp packets, carrier bags
and old coke cans
turned pink over time
by rain
and sun

#5: The Ghost In The Well

I am no longer alive
and you are not yet dead
but give it time
and we’ll be together again

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Notes:

1. The Spider was written on May 20th, 2022
2. The Cat was written on June 4th, 2022
3. A Crow was written on January 3rd, 2023
4. David was written on May 10th, 2022
5. The Ghost In The Well was written on November 11th, 2022

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All I want

all i want
is to make things
that people like

and instead
i make things
like this

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Notes:

1. Written on October 31st, 2022

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A Poem For Halloween

Beneath the sea
the bones and ash
of civilisation’s debris

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Notes:

1. Written on October 31st, 2022

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