[Rob Wright]

1. Requited Love
2. Baby and Bathwater
3. Two Lindens

Thanks for all the hard work of the hosts. It was a great (to my mind the best) Bake-off.

[Roger Slater]

1. Last Dance
2. Requited Love
3. Mower

[stephenspower]

1. Requited Love

I had too many problems with and reservations about the other poems, so I don't want to pick a #2 or #3. If I have to, though, because you go to bake-off with the sonnets you have, after further consideration:

2. Calypso
3. Childhood

[Katherine Smith]

3 pts 1. Childhood
2 pts 2. Two Lindens
1 pit 3. Requited Love

[Mary Meriam]

1. Baby and Bathwater
2. Childhood
3. Mower's Song


Thanks, Gail, Cathy, and Alex. This bake-off was a corker!

[Woody Long]

3 points Childhood
2 points Requited Love
1 point Mower's Song

[Antonia Kelly]

1. Requited Love
2. Childhood
3. Last Dance

Well done to Gail and Cathy

[Alex Pepple]

Yes, vote one, vote all ... every vote counts (except mine!) -- and I see it's coming through fast and furious!

And congrats to our ten final sonnets & sonneteers. Good luck to you all in the vote-getting!

Cheers,
...Alex

[Chris Childers]

1. Requited Love
2. Baby & Bathwater
3. Two Lindens

This was a great bakeoff and to a large extent revived my interest in the Sonnet Bakeoff as an Eratosphere institution. Most every poem has merits and is interesting in some way & you guys were (and remain) right on in your understanding of the sonnet over/against the 'tsunami of traditionalism.' Thanks to Gail & Cathy for all the hard work and agonizing that has won you so much more grief than gratitude.

C

[Seree Zohar]

1st place…#9 Last Dance
2nd place .. #7 Film Noir
3rd place…#8 Baby & Bathwater

Gail and Cathy - cheers! you're both absolutely bonza!