poetry critical

online poetry workshop

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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:

Died before I Lived
sjames

Everyone thinks I’ve got it made
 1
They don’t see the pain, how sharp the blade
 2
 
 
Thrown into a world, choked by time
 3
Strung out from smiles, but love was never mine
 4
 
 
So many people say I’m thought of as grand
 5
Some even have stopped to caress my hand
 6
 
 
But my tortured soul releases its venom
 7
Hidden through sarcasm, a smile, eyes of denim
 8
 
 
Some refuse to glisten from within my glow
 9
A love they starve me from, they know
 10
 
 
Inside of me lurks black, darkness forgotten
 11
On the outside so solid, but inverse gone rotten
 12
 
 
To say everyone loves me, are words only half true
 13
The love I needed to grow, now to feel, still held by you
 14
 
 
Deep down it died, as he had died
 15
Intangible there is nothing I can feel inside
 16
 
 
How is one to live with half a heart?
 17
In a love driven world, I live apart
 18
 
 
I strain to see what some see
 19
How can anyone say they love me?
 20
 
 
When he never did.
 21

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