I think I hate this voting stage. These decisions are impossible.
For entirely subjective reasons, I need simplicity lately, and I got the purest and most immediate pleasure from sonnet 5. I also see all the strengths of sonnets 1 and 2, but lately I've read (and written) a surfeit of poems about age and death and something in my brain backs away.
So in the end I'm going with
sonnet 8 for first place,
sonnet 3 for second, and
sonnet 9 for third
Thanks, Cathy, for all your work, and Sam, for your comments.
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