poetry critical

online poetry workshop

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Welcome!

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:

tick-tock
sweetmisery

From a broken hour glass,
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grains of sand trickle
 2
through the cracks between my
 3
fingers,
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(tick)
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and I can't catch time
 6
any faster than I can catch
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smoke.
 8
(tock)
 9
 
 
Like a twinkle in the eye,
 10
it winks at me
 11
as it falls to its final resting
 12
place,
 13
(tick)
 14
knowing better than I
 15
that time is running
 16
out.
 17
(tock)
 18

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