poetry critical

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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:

The Rain Watcher's Society
Rynne

I know the old souls in my neighborhood.
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They come out from behind curtained windows
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and stand beneath the eaves of their porches
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or behind their aluminum screen doors
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to watch the rain come down.
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We're bound together
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across treated lawns,
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street-parked cars,
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hydrangeas and trumpet vines,
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and white painted curbs
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to share with each other
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a few moments of summer bliss.
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Never is a word said,
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only a quiet wave exchanged
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until we go back inside
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to our own existences
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which are devoid of each other
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until it rains again.
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