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:

on the road to melbourne
unknown

the air is still, and it might explain
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your barren beauty and the sunburned ground along this solo stretch of sky and pavement
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or
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why I miss the way you never used to notice me
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with softly-scented hair.
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(water,
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     coursing through my mind)
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with each passing skeleton tree
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   a vagrant mind pines for a home;
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mankind has slowly filled the world,
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   humanity is still alone.
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your pupils dilate to the bakingly bright
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dignity of sundown.
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(surrounded by wonderers
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  surrendered to dusk.)
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I breathe in you,
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and feel you breathe me, too.
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