Long Critiquing Poems

Again the alarm is set.

Strawberries, date squares…Yum, Yum.   

The alarm rings again. The tea party is over.

 She returns to her perch where her wings are immediately clipped by the Bald Eagle who...

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What a gratifying experience this was...


While sitting at a readers’ desk in Bobby Booker’s Bookstore, waiting for the latest composition I’d composed
To reach the eyes of - Bob himself...the so-called - “God of Verse”...the man...

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The scent of musty, truly ancient fine books,
Waifs seductively behind the impossible doors, 
As they swing wide, out into L.A.’s balmy air,
I enter, a shiver, over what lies therefore.

There they are, the true Hollywood stars,
Scaling...

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Dad was loadin' rods and tackle, I was addin' fuel, as Mom hopped on with a picnic lunch that balmy afternoon.
Another Sunday outing on the lake - our old routine - as sister Susie tossed...

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he was not dumb 

but he struck his thumb

now he was dumb-struck

and screamed jolly good

his hand in plaster

and bad luck his master

he could not drive his truck


to bide his time

he drank some wine

set out to...

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Upmteenth (re:) inspection revisited...

I experience dread-nought
until April 19th, 2022 becomes yesterday
when troubles with management
here at Highland Manor
hoop fully temporarily alleviated.

Yours truly and the missus
personal living space
otherwise known as Unit B44
encroached, obtruded, and violated
predicated upon fruit...

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Relief courtesy dreaded (re:) inspection not revisited until May 2022

Anticipatory anxiety put on high alert
when the warden gave less than a week
courtesy spluttering tone of voice
she did angrily blurt
nsync with her usual persona
being wickedly curt
treating...

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Love without limits

Love without limits
Limit without love(without love)
Its not complicated 
The more you think of(of)
Its a togetherness 
Everyone wouldnt understand 
Its a like job market
The supply and demand(demand)
So what is it that people want to...

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a skinny, dreamy-eyed boy in a suburban Jesuit school 
showed up in your English class...to learn a bit of class.

you taught me Milton, introduced me to Stevenson,
made this boy make sense out of words 
directly...

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"Tread softly because you tread on my dreams", William Butler Yeats

Self-preservation is perhaps the first instinct known to all species.   
Sometimes, the rescue will break forth from various sources, but it  ...

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Waking me in the wake of her brilliance
words spoken,written in convoluted high tones
ringing meaning esoteric and quite unknown
the craft was hyped in meteoric terms
shining bright, sending craven tremulous brain numb.



Harking, in glory she strode the...

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Sometimes, opportunities are given for people to vent,
and sometimes, doors are opened for people to confess.
Venting is helpful and releasing, but confessing is best.
This time, the door opens, not for others, but for me.

Sometimes, I...

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Smokey hillside, offers flavors 
of privacy bared open.
Reading like futuristic three, 
maybe fourth dimensional sign 
that says "open".
The neighbors business blabbed
all around by "Miss social, "the "original", organic-loving and down to earth hippie.
She corrals Betty's...

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I wasn't born gorgeous 
I just learned to soak up the ways in which not to be afraid
         of my own image
 I look back at old...

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I spent my day shopping with Ruby
              (I find her an absolute pain)
         ...

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From now on

I must gain some focus

Find a way to be motivated,

Study and find the light and love

I wonder if I've been practising enough,

Nothing comes easy, that's a fact

Got to try and improve and up...

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PATHETIC WHORELOCK, where in the world do I begin?
That "slam" was nothing more than an insult to "your" pen!
So, I am the focus of your "DEMONIC STARE,"
Though your rhymes needed critiquing with a little more...

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Personal preference enters into every poetry contest 
Outstandingly subjective
Enticing to one is repulsive to two others
Tricky to judge poems unless there are blatant errors
Ridiculous with a capital R to compare a poem against another
You can...

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Always treasure what you write
Have your pencil and pad with you at all times
you might think of a subject
or a verse
write it down so you won't forget

Get all your ideas down
then try to rearrange them...

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Loveless world
You put on your shows
Anything goes
You judge and feed scandals
Your definition of Mercy is critiquing how good someone can handle
So quick to mock our celebrities cries
Instead of seeing through to their lives that are...

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The Muse

She sat on my bed, red mouth scattering.
Drinking my smoke and comfort.
I was dancing diet pill, with ear buds.
Pestering on my shoulder,
was her dead lovely.

I, am smell of sometimes,
Her, a voice of flavor on...

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She sat on my bed, red mouth scattering.
Drinking my smoke and comfort.
I was dancing diet pill, with ear buds.
Pestering on my shoulder,
was her dead lovely.

I, am smell of sometimes,
Her, a voice of flavor on the...

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Dear Poets,

First of all, I would like to say hello. My name is Dakarai Cobb, but you know me as The 
Sonnet Man. Let me get right to the point. The reason why I am...

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Hello there Mr Robot
You might remember me
I was the human poet
Who invited you to tea

If not an imposition
A favour could I ask?
When you read this little ditty
I request of you a task..

It might be several...

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AMBER

Amber described her.
High yellow like the sun itself
With a inside orange like a 
Fresh lit fire.
Eyes so intriguing, heart so fatiguing
From critiquing men,
That weakened her.
 Men that weekend her when she deserved
All the days on...

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