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:

No Apologies
HankA

There are no more today
 1
for they have ceased to be heard
 2
 
 
for the past, the present, and the future.
 3
You can kiss it away, you can wave good-bye,
 4
I suppose it never really suit you.
 5
 
 
You give no apologies
 6
It doesn't even cross your mind
 7
Theres no need to say it anymore
 8
because you've gotten away with it all this time
 9
 
 
So march!! and barrel right on through.
 10
It's not your fault if they get shoved aside
 11
It's not your fault they would not move.
 12
 
 
So march!!, and shove them out of the way
 13
Isn't this how we like it?
 14
Isn't this how we love to play?
 15
 
 
Your heart is growing hard..
 16
and  you don't even know it.
 17
 
 
You've forgotten what it means to be...sympathetic
 18
You've forgotten what it means to be...apologetic
 19
 
 
and for those who can remember.....
 20
very rarely do they show it
 21
 
 
You give no apologies
 22
For they've taken on irrelevance
 23
There's no need to say it anymore
 24
And now we have Malevolence
 25
 
 
So march! Worry not about what they think of you
 26
Worry not about what they say
 27
Or what they might do to you.
 28
 
 
So march! and embrace insensitivity
 29
Stop at nothing! Keep on going!!
 30
Annihilate civility
 31
 
 
Is this what you want?
 32
Is this what you crave?
 33
 
 
From this banquet you wish to feed?
 34
This is how you wish to behave?
 35
 
 
I respectfully decline
 36
I shall let the army pass.
 37
I am not afraid to say I'm sorry
 38
I am not afraid to come in last.
 39
 
 
So, wont you reconsider stop the fighting
 40
and the noise, and all the fuss,
 41
 
 
You'll marvel at how much you can accomplish
 42
 
 
When you finally start to think of us.
 43

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