Let me tempt you with a sonnet opening stanza, care to add?

L4 may be revised to meet the iambic pentameter requirement:

"Such sorry wastes, though trivial to rescind;"

Thanks to all of you. You sure could form your own sonnets, starting from these lines. Write on.

This is how I have finished this sonnet, being encouraged by your responses.

Sonnet 198

Moonlights without love, just a waste of moons,

Loose, empty hugs, apt tunnels for the wind,

Sand castles built upon the shifting dunes,

Such sorry wastes, I'm hapless to rescind;

A showy dress of living contents, nil,

A lovely face, to mask the lack of soul,

Might Galatea all my dreams fulfill,

If statues bear the charms that I extol;

But surely soon, a love, some goddess brings,

Much better though if decked with ancient gems,

Such precepts on which olden wisdom clings,

The best for any lass to wear than diadems;

......My fault, I yearn the past so much, it seems,

......To oft confuse the memories with dreams.

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