Best Critics Poems

Critics

Wrote a poem in the sand,
Wonder how it fares if left alone,
Will it bear on its own merits
Or juxtapose by meddling hands,
Meantime, sun-dries it again,
Wind shifts it broad and thin,
Indelible puddles left by rain,
Sand critters pop out and in,
A boy and his ball rolls along,
With...

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Wipe that silly grin from your face, boy
I am a woman, but certainly not a wimp
Watch me roll with the punches, tough guy
It'll take more than your words my style to crimp


    Hey, babe, your style really sucks
    Call...

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Ears listening to only their lies,

And their lies speaking only to them,

Trying to be quiet yet still screaming,

Drowning in rants never heard,

So concise but not too clear,

Imprisoned in thoughts of obsession,

Muttering useless ancient literary rules,

In love with yet hating poetic expressions,

Foreign to their limited constrained...

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There are always those who say that you are wrong.
They are the ones who never stray from the herd.
They go to school and learn everything about life from manuals.
They write poems and stories like other poets and writers did.
They get good grades.
They stay out of...

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why is it I never in my life gave cadence as to critic another poets work
yet they find it perfectly acceptable to rate my own submissions
they aren't Jesus they don't walk on water so why should I bother with them
some are intellectualized wandering wizards others...

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I once knew a poet named Broken Wings,
And onto comments sweet and nice, she clings;

At times, some meanness visits,
She just laughs at those critics,

Because she wins, and her poetry sings !

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February 24, 2016

Limerick

For the contest, Sensitive Commenting,
sponsor, Skat

Fifth Place...

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Blow my own trumpet?
No. But when the baton’s out
the orchestra plays.
...

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critics
shoot their arrows
pointed remarks puncture
self-confidence and instigate
anger...

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First a simple lunch –
soup, salad, rolls and dessert
(and wine if we choose).
Then the book.*
 
We become critics when we read.
That's half the fun of it.
The other half is the pleasure of the word.
Prose can be poetry.

Our preferences are as diverse as our personalities.
What I...

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Ears listening to only their lies,

And their lies speaking only to them,

Trying to be quiet yet still screaming,

Drowning in rants never heard,

So concise but not too clear,

Imprisoned in thoughts of obsession,

Muttering useless ancient literary rules,

In love with yet hating poetic expressions,

Foreign to their limited constrained...

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Finds me
Binds me
Cleans me
Frees me
Critics cannot blind and bind my guts
Call me mean, it cleans, frees, can’t rebut....

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Judgement                                 
           ...

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That's what they say to me,

Writing verse that does not conform,

Style which doesn't comply with their old dead masters,

Using formats that threaten aged literary girdles, 

So long ago having lost their stretch,

Constraining brains to the point of not thinking,

Afraid to lose trainees whose minds walk...

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the world is full of critics: both the Young who scoff at love, and the Old who ridicule desire....

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So people have 
   told you 
to stop 
   People say you have no talent
Don't back down! 
   Critics are not creators 
You are! 
 Pick up your pens 
Poetry Soup poets!
  Write from the depths of your...

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