poetry critical

online poetry workshop

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comments: 291,725
ratings: 106,439
average rating: 7.4
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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:

will you please be my coloring book
hoagie
color me confused;	1
however much it is an honor to love you	2
your gracelessness makes me crazy.	3
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color the night beautiful;	5
as i walk through the streets with you	6
and i wonder if i could color upon your natural skin.	7
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if i could, just once;	9
i would color the world for you	10
assuming you would let me color you mine.	11
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1. Echo and Ophelia
2. A Prostitute Revisits Her Ex-Lover’s Room
3. between two earths
4. Pilot Light
5. Berceuse
6. DaDA Taoist
7. A Man Is A Rock (And Every Day Is A Hard Place)
8. Ex
9. The Troll (for my old friend)
10. More Orphan Than Not
11. slowly, slowly, the bird and the barking spider
12. 涙ウラン
13. fuck art
14. Spring Wasp
15. In Honor of the Wounded

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1. Echo and Ophelia
2. dandelions
3. i knocked down a house of cards, backwards, with my eyes closed
4. The Fart
5. when with my sleeves i lightly touched yours
6. bollox
7. Don't expect me to be sane after this
8. dance all over your face
9. Biting My Tongue
10. on the origin of the envy of species
11. Brake for a Poet's Moon
12. Union
13. If it flies, get your Mosin
14. Women: a shopper's guide
15. Chlorine and Candy and the Resurrection of Trust

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