I'll have to get the ISPCE Handbook (International Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ears) Most of the trouble comes with the fact that I am only one person and I don't see everything all the time. The object of the last challenge was to break into freestyle. I was,in fact leaning away from rhymes, I was looking for consonnance and quasieuphonic word pairs. I didn't consider meter, but Chucks poem was so well balanced I did give him some points. I was tempted to give R2B more points for her use of the tilde when changing scenes, but on such a small poem her rapid pace of scene change was like a revolving door. Considering her subject I thought that was a good effect. I have learned my lessons from this experience and I am instructing the Bulgarian judge. When I give points for something I'll write it down and try to be consistent. I do like parallel structure and when the catalog goes to a high point. Chuck's poem had a catalog, but it seemed to ramble. The old man in the wheel chair as an image, I couldn't consider that as a zenith or a nadir. I have another idea in the works its: Does all poetry have to be dark...Now Bart Simpson once said "Writing depressing songs for teenagers is like shooting fish in a barrel"., well what's the challenge in that?