poetry critical

online poetry workshop

Current Stats
  • poems: 30,933 (10,104 active)
  • comments: 218,533
  • ratings: 84,853
  • average rating: 7.3
  • forum posts: 145,087
  • users: 6,988 (317 active)
  • current users: 3

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.

 
$567
$600
Donation Drive: Pay for first year of hosting

Random Poem:

Her Death
Pegboy

The blackness, sombre, thick as stage curtains
 1
Consumes the air, spreading fast
 2
a diffusing gas.
 3
 
 
A woman's high-heels, with pinpricks as points,
 4
clatter on the stone parapet.
 5
Shes running, fast, with an urgency
 6
that her heart beat can't match.
 7
 
 
Nothing near, an empty set.
 8
The air seems to buzz as if
 9
the night has swallowed all life
 10
Except for her.
 11
 
 
The sound of her heavy breathing,
 12
mist exhaled from the painted mouth,
 13
her skin, icy cold, white, like snow.
 14
 
 
She seems somehow damp,
 15
blonde curls hand loosely
 16
body sagging from the exertion
 17
 
 
falling, down into darkness
 18
the chilly air enfolds her death
 19
night swallows her soul
 20
Her body discarded like a careless sweet wrapper
 21
 
 
The eyes glisten, lifeless
 22
The eloquent red liquid seeps from her
 23
A hiss from her mouth, chilling everything further
 24
No life, an empty set, darkness consuming all.
 25

(comment on this poem)
Top Rated (expand)
Newest (expand)
Recently Commented (expand)
Recent Best (expand)
design & code copyright donald tetto. all poems copyright their original authors.
0.681s