Nature Sonnets
Ode to a Box
A sluggish river meanders ahead
To Cartographers it seeks to flummox
And grounded via rope unto a bed
There bobs about an electronic box
A Measure maven without biases
Which gives you heaps of data without fuss
Through machines used for other purposes
Will never be as sacchariferous
Alien walls of metal and concrete
to generate energy is their goal
Relentless as the rivers they mistreat
They help us, but on nature take their toll
But so long as that box clings to it’s rope
We all can hold a tiny bit of hope
Reflection
In this project each student was tasked with writing a sonnet to complement the chemestry side of our watershed exhibition. The only requirement was that the sonnets had to have something to do with the watershed. I focused on the soecific product that my chemestry project group made: a measurment device use to check the tempreture and speed of a river or creek. By the end of this project I had learned the rules of what makes a sonnet a sonnet (Iambic pentameter, sylable count, etc) and I had developed a workflow the works well when making sonnets. My sonnet isabout how different man-madeobjects affect creeks differently, I use measurment devices and hydro-electric dams as extreme examples for either side. I was very happy about the final product of the project, as my group decided to display my sonnet in large print for exhibition, although we did use a different title ("Boulevard of Broken Streams" was to good to pass up).