Quondam and Tide

Those are the titles of two sonnets that I've written for a sonnet contest. I'm no sonneteer, mind you. Just stretching my poetic wings a bit. I like the constraints of the form as an exercise in flexibility--if that makes some sort of odd sense. . . . I hope to print them off later today and possibly send them in. That would be a pleasant finish to a fairly unproductive week writing-wise.