From Oz

[Leanne]

Thanks guys. This is a very old poem, one of my first sonnet forays written long before workshops like this existed (it was on a 3.5 inch floppy that I recovered from my undergraduate days). Of course it's referencing Ozymandias, but there was a bit of Hobbes in the course work as well, and some Milton... aren't we all so terribly full of knowledge when we're undergrads? In those days I didn't write much form, despite it being my first love, because my professors were all "everything has to be freeverse because rhyme is old fashioned" -- you know, wankers. So it's a first draft, never seen a revision and I only dug it out because something recently reminded me of it, and I thought it might be time to see what can be done with it.

I greatly appreciate your input and will work through it soon enough, once it's got time to settle in. It's quite odd working with something so old, as I can't remember why I chose certain phrasings -- probably because nobody was telling me any different at the time!