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:

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PureSunShine

A saturnine chill down my spine,
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As I perched in front of my fate.
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I knew what I had to do.
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Like the wind I had to fly
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Effortlessly through,
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Like fingers combing hair
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Like rain
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Trickling off a duck's back,
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Then bursting with fire
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Speckles of light.
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I had to sink my teeth in.
 11
 
 
Tasting every drop.
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Breaking the flesh of what stood in my path.
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I could feel the blade's sharpness, slicing through.
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I know what has to be done.
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Feel it rupture beneath my grasp.
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What was my motive?
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- January 8, 2003
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