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:

asifIwereyou
gjenkins

drip away dreams of philosophical
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cupcake with extra blueberries of hope,
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as time beaten against the wall;
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I walk the atrocities thru the halls
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as the wild eyed beast tells me:
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“you have 5 days to get out, you
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have five days to pay the balance or
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you will be evicted,” it said.
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the farting thing walks away as
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obvious as surfaced deadness.
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my diminished flesh searches for light
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in poems pumped out of this Kenosha
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thing, poems on ceilings, biting at leg
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flesh; poems on the floor working its
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mosquito type anxiety. what, you don’t
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undestand the proliferated regurgitation
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of running naked wired words, shell shocked
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on my benched illusions. I let it explode
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in the yuma deserts; holding shockless
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flesh in my hand, throwing words at
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you like a silly one legged duck, as I sink in blood and
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holiness, black flawless tears run under the
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bathroom door.
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I stick the sound of the slow melting
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moon in my pocket and ask myself, is it the
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bullwinkle blue of reinvented destruction
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or is it just you?
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