James Inman Poet Sonnet

Notes About The Poem

Use the following Binary to text translator to find the meaning of the binary code in this poem.

Each line has eight characters right them down in the order you find them in the line, for example the first line would be 01101100.  Go to:  

https://www.rapidtables.com/convert/number/binary-to-ascii.html

and enter the numbers from each line for an entire stanza, leaving a space between each line (each eight characters) then hit the convert button.  The binary in each stanza creates one word.  The binary in the last stanza can be copy and pasted in the translator to get the final line of the poem.  Do the same with the binary in the title to get the actual title of the poem.

00110000 00110001

0n th1s br1ght early m0rn1ng, 1 s00n see
h0w l1fe's gr1m gl0w can s1gh such gl00m 1n me,
Th0ugh catb1rds s1ng w1th a s0ft ch1m1ng fl0w,
n0 t1m1d m00n w1ll 0utsh1ne my tableau.

N0 stark wh1n1ng s0unds 1n small plast1c r00ms,
wh0 sp1t b1nate c0de 1n 1ntr1gu1ng spumes,
kn0ws 1f 1t st1lls the l0ve 1ns1de 0f me
as d0 1r1s g0ld, 0r f1elds 0f l1ly.
 
0f l1fe's thr1lls, n0t 0ne mach1ne w1ll perce1ve,
(f0r, 1t 1s wr1t, that G0d m0lded th1s s0ul),
n0r gr1n w1th j0yful sm1les, l0ve 0r bel1eve,
when, n0w, w1th1n 0ur m1nds, l1fe 1s the g0al.

If ones and zeros come up with a sum,
I wonder... 01101001 01110011 00100000 01101100 01101001 01100110 01100101 00100000 01000111 01101111 01100100 00100111 01110011 00100000 01100001 01101100 01100111 01101111 01110010 01101001 01110100 01101000 01101101?


10/14/2018

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Andrea Dietrich January 10, 2019 at 5:36 PM this is very clever, but I still do not understand the conversion thing you said at the end of yourexplanation box. An interesting write, my friend. James Inman January 10, 2019 at 6:52 PM Thanks Andrea.

Viv Wigley October 24, 2018 at 9:32 PM Is it indeed, James? Very clever. I spent thirty years in I.T, glad you never wrote in hex :) James Inman October 24, 2018 at 10:16 PM I'm a lowly computer repair man Viv. Anything more complex than 0s and 1s (which by the way I don't write, luckily there are wonderful converters available) and my brain freezes and I have to reboot myself (not a pretty sight). Hex would send me into an eternal loop that my brain would never be able to recover from. Thanks for the comment, it made me smile. (Thirty years, impressive.)

Chris Hagy October 20, 2018 at 3:31 PM That is an amazing feat with the numbers there James!...just thought I'd stop by and say thanks for the great book review on Amazon ! :)... that is so helpful! Have a great day :) James Inman October 20, 2018 at 4:23 PM Hi Chris, no problem. A very interesting read. Thanks for the visit.

Anne-Lise Andresen October 18, 2018 at 1:38 PM - Awesome, James ! - hugs // Anne-Lise :) James Inman October 18, 2018 at 8:54 PM Hi Anne-Lise, hope you're well. Thank you for the great comment.

Arthur Vaso October 14, 2018 at 10:23 PM Very creative! James Inman October 14, 2018 at 10:30 PM Thank you Arthur.

Nancy Beckman October 14, 2018 at 6:42 PM Incredible! James Inman October 14, 2018 at 8:16 PM Thanks for the visit Nancy. This one took a while to complete. By the way, the title (if you haven't figured it out) is binary for "01" which is the name of the poem.

Silent One October 14, 2018 at 2:07 PM Very clever James! James Inman October 14, 2018 at 8:06 PM Thank you Silent One, I hope you used the converter for the last line.

Line Gauthier October 14, 2018 at 12:17 PM Brilliant, James. James Inman October 14, 2018 at 8:03 PM Line, hi, thanks for the wonderful comment. Because of the restrictive nature of the write, I'm afraid the flow and terminology suffered somewhat. It was meant to be a Shakespearean Sonnet but to make the binary work it was not possible. At least it is a sonnet.