poetry critical

online poetry workshop

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  • comments: 261,189
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Welcome!

Welcome to Poetry Critical, an online poetry workshop. To post your own poetry, rate that of others, or start a new thread on the message board, 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 do that without logging in by typing your comment in the box under each poem or post.

A message from your absent editor

Hey all, it’d be a lie to call PC anything but abandoned, but it’s not forgotten. I’m constantly thinking about Poetry Critical 2.0 and very, very occasionally doing a little work on it. Unfortunately, I don’t really have the time or energy to devote to upkeep that the site needs and I apologize that it’s a bit derelict—but to be clear, I have no intention of selling the site or the domain name or taking it down now or at any time in the future.

Thank you all so much for continuing to pour love into the site—I know it sucks that it feels unreciprocated, but it’s the community that keeps things going here here! Keep up the great work.

P.S. It’s been a few years—and I hadn’t updated the bar below since 2008—but a donation in early February put us over the top of paying for the first year of hosting at the new server. $600! That’s a lot of generosity for a site that I’ve neglected, and I really appreciate it.

 
$608!!!
$600
Donation Drive: Pay for first year of hosting Accomplished! Thanks so much everyone.


Random Poem:

fate
thirdeyris

Life has led me here.
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Through tests and fights
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and bloodshed.
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Though sorrow and birth
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and through love.
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Life has ripped me
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through time only to
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stop suddenly.
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and to suffer surges of
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miscarriages and migraines.
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Life has let me breathe and
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let me wonder
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Life has led me here.
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Mostly through fear.
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