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:

sonnet 1 [to Jenlara]
peanut

A lonly stream of scarlet ribbon ran
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poetic beauty, springing from blue veins.
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This tender heat now tracing down cold hands
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makes private statements proving life remains.
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A disregard of one's own beating heart
 5
or failure reasoning with one's own mind
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encourages coy fingers to split 'part
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the skin to free blood from its mortal bind.
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And eyes cry tears in silent reverence
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to purging of one's hate and one's despair.
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This aching mind deals its own punishment
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undeserving to be fully repaired.
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A series of events taking their toll
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on someone yeilding all conscious control.
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