Frankly I think you need to go with your own instincts. If you feel the poem is enhanced by the music and the font and the background, then that's an artistic choice on your part and the experience you want for the viewer, and those of us who don't enjoy it will simply move on to a different experience. It takes a lot of courage to share a personal vision in public. I applaud you for doing that.

I wouldn't for the world pretend to be an adequate critic so what follows is an expression of personal preference and no reflection on your website...and I hope you know that one person's reaction is just that of one person and doesn't reflect anything else but the bias of that person.

So here are the comments (for whatever they are worth):

I found the font difficult to read (though it is better than the micro font that people seem so fond of using these days).

I also found the music distracting and immediately turned it off on my computer. Music forces its own rhythm into a person's head and unless you wrote the poem to be read to that particular piece of music, it distracts from the natural beat of your own words.

I like the background picture...it seemed to go with the mood of the poem without imposing a particular vision on me (I think the danger of graphics is that we don't allow the reader choice in how envision what is expressed in the words....as a reader, I don't always want help in seeing).

What you might consider doing is having the version with the enhancements and another without so people can choose. People with limited vision would need a version that their electronic Readers can scan properly (I didn't check to see if your poem's font was set onto the page as a graphic....if it is, then the electronic Readers couldn't scan it at all). One way to test for accessibility for those who have disabilities is to test your page in http://bobby.watchfire.com/bobby/html/en/index.jsp ... why bother? Because the community of people with disabilities is considerable and I don't think it hurts to be sensitive to their needs. A "vanilla" version with easy reading for those of us with limited or no vision at all is not a bad thing to consider (and takes up very little bandwith).

But if the music and the font and the background are important to your expression of your poem, I'd safely ignore any comments from someone like me and pursue your artistic vision.