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:

How Does It Feel?
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Tell me; how does it feel to know
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that my whole world revolves around you?
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Are you dizzy yet; watching the stars,
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you are the sun they circle around,
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Yet they never reveal themselves,
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they never sail to the ground.
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They must stay solar systems away,
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for they are too afraid to show,
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the depths of the emotion,
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the passion pulsing in their cores,
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they remain paralyzed in their black ocean,
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Merely temped to be something more.
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One day I will fall away; will blink awake
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from this black fear that surrounds me.
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And when I do, I'll come searching for you,
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and together slowly; in the blackest of rooms,
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I will burn you up.
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Then you will be able to tell me,
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you will shout it to the moon; just how it feels to know
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that my whole world revolves around you.
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