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:

Invisible Adoration (Mu)
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Semi-aquatic with exotic,
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muscular arms and advanced
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monuments on supernatural
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ocean surlands, a species
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of sleek, gill-glanded, pacific
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humanoid people of MENSA-
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caliber hints, and humility.
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I find imagining them,
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braids on chins. Both sexes
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draw into skin symbols
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blessing the eyes of goodly
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otherworldly life (one can
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see in the ripple of a river
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or wash of the tide).
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Many are weathered shifty
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from thousands of years
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long crouching and joking
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on reefs- I think, maybe,
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I am kin to the undines.
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I have echolocation ably-
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realized play-fishing!
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Gifted awesome highs of theirs
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are auric celebrations, when chi,
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superbly concealed like inspired
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mist into my wists, bemusingly
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oceanically touches. My core
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sometimes gushes.
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And one of them romances
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deeply: living so aware, I go
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spontaneously part-erect:
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ecstation feeling an invisible
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adoration looking passionately,
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loaking slyly, surprisingly
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aroused all mu-eyed!
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That's worthy popularity,
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says a guest! My living has an
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invisible enlightenment, (my
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righted-heart, a gift on a quest).
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High honor flows gracefully
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across my form. I listen better,
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and try to faithfully keep
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to that true love felt within.
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