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Originally Posted by Andrew Sacks
#1. "Calypso"
My only vote.
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I think Andrew makes an interesting point about how poems behave in competitions.
Some of these sonnets have met with widespread enthusiasm, others have polarised opinion. Like Andrew, I find I am most attracted to poems with a foot in both camps.
When I think about the classical composers I delight in today, there are a few whom I loathed in my teens (outstandingly Ravel, and perhaps Mozart). The music I 'sort of' enjoyed when younger, I find now lacks the urgency to hold my attention.
My second and third choices are very much poems which make me want to see other work from the same authors:- in the hope and expectation that I will find something even better. 'Calypso' was the only poem here which I felt I had to accept on its own terms, or not at all.
It is not a poem I wish I had written. I know full well I could never have written those lines without being someone else.
Another feature which attracted me to the piece.
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