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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Random Poem:

forgive me. silence me.
silentspring

if red is every color but
 1
then each breath every last exhale.
 2
what of carbon dioxide
 3
growing flowers made from crepe paper seeds.
 4
tinted windows only seen
 5
through sun-glassed lenses.
 6
but your eyes were always mysteriously colored
 7
while mine turned silver
 8
with age and lost points of view.
 9
 
 
lighting struck sand into glass
 10
twisted limbs of trees
 11
last I heard they landed confetti.
 12
thin as nothing short of barbed wire fences
 13
caught on sideways smiles pulling hard
 14
up.
 15
but if i close my eyes tonight
 16
im laughing
 17
while memories of long hall meetings
 18
fall down stairs into cardboard boxes
 19
packed away for netherdays.
 20
 
 
silver metal necklace
 21
weaving silhouettes of embrace
 22
lost on the embarkment of next
 23
passing adventure
 24
yesterdays tuesday and tomorrows friday
 25
where'd june go and who forgot to mention
 26
lanes of dew covered trees
 27
waiting for fallen days.
 28
pass me the bottle
 29
we'll drink it down and sing ourselves into the morning.
 30
maybe you'll forget
 31
all those things we did.
 32
 
 
if im lucky an earthquake breaks waves
 33
of sound kept in time with beating lungs
 34
silence is a deadly killer.
 35
so talk to me for awhile in the eves of us.
 36
who we used to be. why we cared
 37
now theres fire burning down bedposts.
 38
so much tossed away into flickering shadows.
 39
forgive me this mistake and i will return
 40
fully harmed.
 41

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