Matriarch
The Way It Ended
Birds Eye View
I didn't find a perfect sonnet in the batch, but I found some I enjoyed very much, some that seemed to successully match the form to the content, and others I couldn't work hard enough to research and translate, though I'm sure they might have repaid the effort. I admire the patience and work you must have put into the selection, Cathy, especially with 68 sonnets to plough through. Thanks to you for screening and to Sam for judging.
In the end I went with what I considered the most successful sonnets, since the contest was for sonnets. I would have chosen Differing Visions but couldn't get past the choppy lines and the implausibility of a scenario in which a mother could miss the fact of her son's colorblindness until he was 5. She should have known it when he was 2.
Carol
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