No I'm opening the field. I see someone testing the water but not jumping in...Rendie is my homebase, but now I have to court 'em in other lands where the folks aren't friendly. You want comments and readers the key in in adaptability. Try a short free style verse on anything keep it to around 10-14 lines and sell the graphics. Everytime I pose a challenge my first bit is to lead off and write from whence I speak. It's no sin to bomb...hell write about the girl you're always chasin' down at the Dunkin' Donuts, or how you went to a football game, sat on the fifty, and didn't give a rra about the game. The problem with your Fading Love Sonnet is its more of a ode at 18 lines...you have four stanzas theres no volta or turn to indicate a change in focus. I bet the gang would comment on the "Globe poem". So I did go to your site. I still get turned off when a poem gets long. It's not you its an in general meico's poems suffered the same fate and the mystic indian poems... If your poems get to cerebral you'll lose 99.9% of the readers. A good poem practices economy of words for all the OF's out there.