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:

A Tribute to Us
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Broken heart beating
 1
At about 7pm the light in the room is pretty close to how it looked this morning
 2
I'm sorry I only slept two hours last night..
 3
Maybe it's just a defense mechanism, or I'm hoping the sleepiness will relax me
 4
 
 
That one time we were under the trees and the breeze blew around us
 5
Like we were one person,
 6
We called it a 'perfect moment'.
 7
A mechanism set in place                  
 8
The offspring of two retards.
 9
 
 
We were kicking ass and taking names.
 10
We were throwing rocks at dead cat's graves.
 11
 
 
We walked on rooftops, basked in moonlight.
 12
We found a few good things in our lives.
 13
 
 
The slightest touch of the softest skin
 14
To sleep and never come back again. To shut you out then pull you in.
 15
Everything feels so crazy when you're next to me.
 16
 
 
I wake up screaming.
 17
 
 
I always make the same mistakes but I'm not confused..
 18
You are the grass and I am the roots, just before we fall apart.
 19
You have to be who you are, you always retreat to the dark
 20
Twenty feet isn't that far.
 21
 
 
ghost of a ghost
 22
 
 
Can't let go of your dreams
 23
Stared at the sun till the middle of your shadow
 24
Cast one thousand invisible chains
 25
 
 
You always sleep with a stone in your hand
 26
I can't stop humming that song you sang
 27
To plan to fail
 28
When failed to plan.
 29
Like a bad independent film
 30
Made with my own two hands.
 31
Put your palms over my mouth so I can't voice this need
 32
Hold fast though I bite them and you bleed
 33
 
 
 
 
A dragon can never feel regret
 34
Because they aren't real.
 35

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