poetry critical

online poetry workshop

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Welcome!

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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Follow @poetrycritical for more!

Random Poem:

Blankly
treerain

Sits stares blankly
 1
At a screen
 2
That bursts with blue life
 3
Refusing to share its secret
 4
Across the lines of connection
 5
Into your mind
 6
Are you there waiting for my response?
 7
Staring back into the space
 8
Awaiting my call
 9
Firewall Bridge
 10
A place in anticipation of
 11
The fuel from my body
 12
Intellectual peace
 13
The tears that cross the cornered horizon
 14
Breaking in the stillness of sound
 15
Chills up my back
 16
Down into the mud of my longing
 17
Back into the caves of origin
 18
Back from the basis of time
 19
So I ask you now
 20
How primitive are we
 21
Now that we are in silent embrace
 22
Under the stars of yesterday
 23
Reaching into the past of tomorrow
 24
Right now, face to face
 25
In the impossibility of the gap between us
 26
Somehow I can feel your touch
 27
Without your being
 28
Without your spirit beside me
 29
To heal the wounds inflicted
 30
By the beginning of time
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