poetry critical

online poetry workshop

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Welcome!

Welcome to Poetry Critical, an online poetry workshop. To post your own poetry, rate that of others, or start a new thread on the message board, 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 do that without logging in by typing your comment in the box under each poem or post.

A message from your absent editor

Hey all, it’d be a lie to call PC anything but abandoned, but it’s not forgotten. I’m constantly thinking about Poetry Critical 2.0 and very, very occasionally doing a little work on it. Unfortunately, I don’t really have the time or energy to devote to upkeep that the site needs and I apologize that it’s a bit derelict—but to be clear, I have no intention of selling the site or the domain name or taking it down now or at any time in the future.

Thank you all so much for continuing to pour love into the site—I know it sucks that it feels unreciprocated, but it’s the community that keeps things going here here! Keep up the great work.

P.S. It’s been a few years—and I hadn’t updated the bar below since 2008—but a donation in early February put us over the top of paying for the first year of hosting at the new server. $600! That’s a lot of generosity for a site that I’ve neglected, and I really appreciate it.

 
$608!!!
$600
Donation Drive: Pay for first year of hosting Accomplished! Thanks so much everyone.


Random Poem:

stuttering, silly, shy sam
aeturnus

they're right
 1
whenever they say how
 2
you're not my type of girl
 3
you don't look like them
 4
or talk like them
 5
hell, you barely
 6
walk, like them
 7
your hair is not
 8
the right color, at all
 9
and your breasts
 10
are a bit large
 11
for my usual taste
 12
you don't have a precarious
 13
way to lick your lips
 14
or some nuance
 15
for me to
 16
fall in love with
 17
i don't try
 18
to penetrate, your mind
 19
when i'm with you, to
 20
find your motives
 21
or, manipulate you
 22
when i'm away
 23
from you, i don't
 24
find myself thinking
 25
of you, or, catching myself
 26
wishing, to be with you
 27
so when it comes
 28
right on down to it
 29
i think, that's why
 30
i want to
 31
fall in love
 32
with you
 33

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