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:

A small little note.
Cloudless

I found your pictures from Hungary,
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you gave them to me that day in the apartment
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after rousing rounds of loving you.
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We were sitting on your bed eating sandwhiches
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watching Lizard King roam about the room,
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and I had scavenged a bit while you dressed.
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So now we roamed through pictures of your happier days, dressed in Bambi costumes, smiling on couches
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and gazing across Lake Balitone.
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But enough reminiscing and to the present we come,
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I've kept them one long year and now that across them
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I've run-
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      must I to return them to the sun?
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When we broke up, you shouted you didn't want them.
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Did you mean it, or did you just not want to see me again?
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Shall I mail them? Hand them over through a mutual friend?
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I believe with them, a small little note I will send,
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please take care, for I will          see you again.
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                                       never
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