I like your work, and it's obvious you have skill with crafting words, but something about your poems seems off to me. I can't place it and it's something most people wouldn't say, so I'll do my best to explain and characterize it and hope like hell it helps.

Intellectually, your work stands up. The poems are crafted well, the ideas are there, the content is good. But the tone of your work seems... foreign somehow. It's as if you are writing in a style that doesn't suite your nature. Or if you think that poetry should be a certain way so you are writing it that way. It's a very difficult feeling to articulate and I may just be completely wrong, so please bear with me.

For me, poetry is about self-expression. Style is a means to an end, not an end-all. I have, thus far, avoided set styles or formulaic approaches to poems. This is because I believe that it is important for a poet to find their own poetic voice before challenging themself with something as artistically demanding as a set style. Style can overpower the voice and tone of a poet who is not comfortable enough with their own voice and abilities. This is because you are focused on meeting the requirements or meter or rhyme, instead of focused on expressing yourself through that particular method or style.

Now it could just be that I'm completely buggered in the head and you just have chosen this particular way of expressing yourself. But it just feels like there is emotional distance between the speaker in your poems and the reader. Like I said, maybe this is all your individual style and I'm just not used to it.

Definitely went out on a limb with this review, so... I hope this helps... somehow