Mark's idea of making a snakey bow that snakes back-to-belly sounds interesting, but more of a challenge than I'd personally want to tackle. Guess you'd classify that profiel as R/D/R/D/R/D/R?
I'd maybe kerf the log before splitting by taking a hatchet and mallet and making a 1" kerf along one side, just to guide the split. It might prevent the split from trying to run off one side or another.
I would go ahead and split everything, until you at least bust the logs in half they will drry very slowly and probaby check on the ends more too. You have a of of work ahead of you, possibly a little more blood loss too. But its a labor of love.
