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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Follow @poetrycritical for more!

Random Poem:

talk in the night
shallee

in every place that holds a comb
 1
a toothbrush
 2
a roll of tape
 3
or even grapes newly washed
 4
 
 
a person takes a stand
 5
hears the sounds of the night
 6
 
 
a bird way out there
 7
calls another
 8
over there
 9
way over there
 10
lets me hear
 11
the conversation
 12
 
 
one of them shouts the steady talk
 13
the other answers
 14
a quick chirp
 15
just enough to validate
 16
 
 
both together tell me
 17
that if I empty out
 18
what's inside
 19
all the earthy material
 20
in my gut
 21
their calls can heal anything
 22

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