Valentine's Day Love Sonnet Contest

I'm In.

oh goody! iambic pentameter here I come!

Limey Count me in as well.

This is a great contest! It's been a while since I've written something in iambic pentameter. Hopefully, it won't be too archaic-feeling (I have difficulty with modern poetry, but thankfully I don't use alas or thy. I do want people here to be able to stand me, after all.).

Ok I'm in.

you can count me in as well.

Where do I find a definition of a sonnet? I've never tried one...

forget it...I just read the first post. I will see if I can comprehend? Any samples you can point me too though?

okay. okay. Thank you. That's pretty obvious. Remember, I'm the one who started the lazy thread. I will google them. You may see an entry, if I can figure it out. Thanks.

I'm in. Should be fun.

I sent mine! Now I get to wait.

Oh, and thank you for offering such nice prizes, including (or perhaps especially?) the promised critiques.

And I'm done. I was right, it was fun. It's in your paw now, Dawg. Can't wait to see the others and vote.

KTC said:

forget it...I just read the first post. I will see if I can comprehend? Any samples you can point me too though?

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Kevin, if you can fit your facility with beautiful images into a sonnet form, I may have to kill myself, but it will be a happy death.

Shakespeare did a good few -- for some reason I seem to remember #41 as a favorite. Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote a bunch too -- see Sonnets from the Portuguese.

Also, Shelley's Ozymandias is a fine work, one that is familiar to many.

There's an e.e. cummings sonnet laying around the boards in one of the rate-a-poem threads; I'll come back with the link. Sorry - couldn't find it.

Note, also, that Limey's loosened the rules around form for this comp.

He loosened the rules?

Ah well, too late. Mine's in.

Thanks for the very nice comment, Rob. hehe. I like it.


I will be working on my sonnet in the a.m. Anything will go at 4a.m. And thanks much to kid.

can't think of a title

I'm a newbie, and the first thing I did was enter this contest - after I googled sonnet to find out what it is! I hope that just because it's about love doesn't mean it has to be serious. I don't do serious. Can't. So thanks for teaching me something new right away.

Mine's also done and I had fun and then I had to name it,
Considered a number and then I decided to claim it
(after several different revisions,
thanks for your patience dawg
on my re-re-resubmissions!)