BB:

I think this forum is hardly the site to submit your sonnets for judgement on poetical merit. What you will get here is an acknowledgement of sentiment, and general encouragement or not, but most of the people on this forum do not puruse the details of poetry and how it grows, despite having highly poetical natures -- that's why they are folksingers, man!! :>) Of course, YMMV.

one need not agree with the intent of the poem to be able to judge it.

I dunno about agreeing, but the impact of a poem is very much dependent on its content. Content that is heavyhanded or obvious or overly self-referential will fall short. In poetry as in folksinging, navelgazing sentimentality is a temptation much to be avoided -- even when it is rigorously executed in terms of meter.

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