poetry critical

online poetry workshop

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poems: 42,909 (7,576 active)
comments: 291,675
ratings: 106,407
average rating: 7.4
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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:

I am no lesbian
unknown
Through the thin	1
layer of florescent white bikini	2
I can see the round globes	3
of her tanned-just-right behind.	4

I am no lesbian, but she	5
has a flat stomach and	6
no piercings, not even her ears,	7
and breasts to match her behind.	8
I want to undulate like that.	9
I want to touch her because	10
through her	11
I can hold beauty in my hands.	12
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1. through your eyes: a seagull murmurs
2. Haiku 4 Hunger
3. on dreaming of us beneath the yellow sky
4. always and never mind
5. Wind Flowers
6. A Prostitute Revisits Her Ex-Lover’s Room
7. between two earths
8. Pilot Light
9. Berceuse
10. DaDA Taoist
11. A Man Is A Rock (And Every Day Is A Hard Place)
12. Ex
13. The Troll (for my old friend)
14. More Orphan Than Not
15. slowly, slowly, the bird and the barking spider

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1. Haiku 4 Hunger
2. Wind Flowers
3. DaDA Taoist
4. dandelions
5. days of shadow and sea
6. i knocked down a house of cards, backwards, with my eyes closed
7. when with my sleeves i lightly touched yours
8. bollox
9. Don't expect me to be sane after this
10. dance all over your face
11. Biting My Tongue
12. Echo and Ophelia
13. on the origin of the envy of species
14. Union
15. If it flies, get your Mosin

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