Less than five months ago, I decided to start writing a new book of poetry. The last book I posted online for sale was as collection of poems that I mashed together like a best of rock album. This time out, every poem I wrote was brand new… I wanted this to be a book of entirely brand new poems.
Then I made things more interesting. Not only would I write new poems, but all the poems in this book would be sonnets. I would use the same rhyme scheme for each poem (abab, cdcd, efef, gg) and I wouldn’t be finished this new book until I wrote fifty (50) of them. I started this ambicious goal in early November and earlier this afternoon, I finished writing sonnet number fifty.
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