poetry critical

online poetry workshop

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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:

when she lost her good memories
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She wishes to run through fields of green holding a flower in the rain	1
She wishes to get straight A's in school	2
But studying she cannot do	3
She wishes to get back her life of	4
good memories and fun times	5
But her father is gone	6
so to the grave he takes them	7
never to be anymore during her new life.	8
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1. snaggletooth and the sorcerer
2. A Prostitute Revisits Her Ex-Lover’s Room
3. All The Birds Downtown
4. and the wolf says...
5. In the Long Grass
6. Pale in Amber
7. In Honor of the Wounded
8. A Man Is A Rock (And Every Day Is A Hard Place)
9. Pilot Light
10. Ex
11. Berceuse
12. More Orphan Than Not
13. fuck art
14. Nothing Is Taboo
15. slowly, slowly, the bird and the barking spider

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7. Cocoon
8. close your mouth
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11. No Place, Nowhere
12. If you see Buddha on the road, kill him.
13. On the Underground
14. the square root of i
15. Freson Acumen.

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