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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Follow @poetrycritical for more!

Random Poem:

annual congestion
saysayonara

I made a swarming-bee-line
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to the core of the conversation
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with blue and red autumn eyes.
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They say a perfect circle's impossible
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and I haven't quite revolved.
 5
It's winter already, quaint cycle,
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and I'm still in summer shorts.
 7
That conversation was an attack
 8
on my spring-cleaning initiative,
 9
and I was surprised in a net
 10
of unblinking, unblooming dandelions,
 11
unaware that I was blowing wishes,
 12
never aged, straight to the ground.
 13
No seeds fell but my wishes.
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And then this talk raised my chin
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and the rays of summer to my nose
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made me sneeze and cleared my head.
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