[Kevin Andrew Murphy]

Well, the topic is "Musing on Mastery," not "Masterful Poems Only" or "Poems by Master Poets Only."

I think we can all crack open our books and find second-rate Dickinson and Frost, and even Shakespeare's less fully realized sonnets, and I think it's fair to say that those luminaries would probably agree--you'd be hard pressed to find any writer equally pleased with all their work.

Musing about a particular form means citing examples, and posting your own for discussion of the form. I threw my first rondeau over to the Deep End for actual critique, but I think it's fair in a literary salon, after discussing what masterworks we could find for a less popular form, to toss out a few of our own experiments.