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:

my friend, george.
miss_minx

now that we're both different
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since we've grown out of the skins
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that made us so akin to each other,
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i confess this once that i indulge
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sometimes in listening to songs
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we talk endlessly about
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at days on end
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and retreat to that deep cosy place
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in my head where the old you still lives.
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its been so long
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on some visits,
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the person doesn't quite look or seem like you
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anymore.
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on a more polite and not so chummy note;
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like the conditions between us now,
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hello, how have you been?
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do you still have three hobbies
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you find it hard to keep up with?
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are you still cryptic from time to time?
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and do you maybe also have a little dark spot
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where a not so accurate version
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of me resides?
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