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:

Christogenics
NicMichaels

Iguanas are falling
 1
out of the trees
 2
in Florida. Online
 3
 
 
the Mona Lisa
 4
further freezes her smile.
 5
Positive thinking is
 6
 
 
breath rendered
 7
over zero. In South Carolina
 8
a man became apopsicle
 9
 
 
buried
 10
in his homeless wrapper
 11
of tent. Visitor at church
 12
 
 
declares:
 13
“Gotta phone home about
 14
the welfare of my
 15
 
 
snapping turtle.”
 16
I see the signs. I may be
 17
possessing them.
 18
 
 
Apostles and
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apostraphes of
 20
ice scribble in the air.
 21
 
 
We sing hymns of firewater
 22
waller in
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our homilies, all gospel
 24
 
 
and hypothermia. Exhale
 25
and we rally
 26
frostbitten tourists overseas.
 27
 
 
Inhale and we
 28
invite the mercury
 29
to stand: on its head:
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the Eiffel tower.
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