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:

Porcelain
akiikii

Porcelain.
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That's what my compact says.
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If porcelain, then cracked,
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or shattered maybe,
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held together by messy make-shift dreams,
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old wingéd horses forgotten how to fly,
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retired Pegasus, put to better use.
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Look too closely, and you'll see the lines.
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Fractures where the brown eyed boy dropped me.
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Deep ones from the shock of Daddy falling off the highest shelf.
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Each line has a story
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and the story book is full.
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No room for you.
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Your hands look too shaky anyway.
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