#sonnetchallenge

[nebula61]

Thirty West Publishing House produces hand-bound chaplets and chapbooks.  As I previously posted, they recently chose my poem "The Surest Poison" as winner of their sonnet challenge (part of their celebration of National Poetry Month) and now editor Josh Dale is publishing a chaplet of all the weekly challenge winners!  It will include work from four different writers and four different genres/forms, and will include my winning sonnet as well as a second sonnet "Blood Pacts."  Many thanks to TWPH for their support of poetry and writers!  I would like to learn to make hand-bound chaps like these!  In Josh's picture, you see some of the tools he uses and the resulting chapbooks.

P.S. If you look closely at the second picture, you will see that my two poems happened to fall in the middle pages of the chaplet!

[aubera]

"Craving" Sonnet

Any other day I could wait a tick Waste time because our love will persist When thoughts of losing us makes me too sick I'd sleep on it, consider must I resist? These lifetimes end so suddenly my love And desperate insecurity kills Still blessings fall rapidly from above Our buckets overflow as He fills Know God increases each deposit made Costing little, just a promise saving Us incessantly, our love won't fade Positive vibes is all we are craving Desires of our hearts won't vacate Let's love today, tomorrow might be late