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:

Rain Storm
gem_grrrl

no one chooses the rain when
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silver shocks the liquid-electric
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pour-down in a low night sky
 3
 
 
you stand alongside me watching time
 4
drip to almost predawn wrapped
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inside outside streak-wet droplets
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we hoped it would choose
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us, the creatures whose hearts await
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dark, parched as sands burned bitter
 9
soil of earth, of dust or crumbling clay
 10
 
 
we are the realm of the heart
 11
loam of soul deluged by rain
 12
moistened chambers once crisped
 13
brittle and dry now flooded so when  
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our mouths full of rain water
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choose each other
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lightning kisses
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