poetry critical

online poetry workshop

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Welcome to Poetry Critical, an online poetry workshop. To post your own poetry you'll need to create a user id by typing a name and password in the box above and hitting 'New User'. If you just want to critique or jump into the discussion, however, you can go ahead and get started!

Poetry Critical 2.0

Hey guys, Donald here.

In a few weeks, this site will be 9 years old. 9 years! And I still know some of the earliest submissions by heart.

But, boy. That’s like 102 in web-years. So it’s time for something new. I’m building that something now with my nights-and-weekend minutes (and plenty of coffee). Buy me a cup?

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Random Poem:

Awaken
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Awaken
 1
The whisper screams at my soul,
 2
To awaken.
 3
Tears and laughter follow blindly
 4
As my past becomes alive once more,
 5
Memories of a forgotten age
 6
Slowly return to a vacant space
 7
Clouded in dust.
 8
 
 
Awoken
 9
They return filling the void within my heart
 10
A void I never realized existed.
 11
Tears remembering childhood games,
 12
Playing endlessly defying the sunset.
 13
One more hour,
 14
One more play.
 15
We pleaded with the sun.
 16
Life was only what will we do tomorrow,
 17
Never doubting tomorrow will come.
 18
 
 
Awoken
 19
A memory of friends sadly forgotten with age,
 20
The days we hugged and fought
 21
Back in the day.
 22
They were our company to adventure
 23
Travelers along the same road
 24
Until we met the destiny fork of life and dreams
 25
Making us move on.
 26
 
 
Awoken
 27
Memories of my modest home
 28
Being close to brothers and parents.
 29
Famila is forever as I remember,
 30
Familia es familia.
 31
Words from the past,
 32
Meaning friends come and go,
 33
But the family is forever.
 34
 
 
Awaken my soul
 35
Slumber no longer and remember
 36
The path and the journey.
 37

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