Good critique for my poetry?

Question

Can anyone tell me where can i get a good critique for my poetry?
And I mean a critique from someone who really knows what he's talking about not some crooks like poetry.com
My webpage is
www.poetrypoem.com/angelicface
Can anyone give me any advice?

Everybody is giving me basically the same advice which says poetry is for my self and not other people. I know that but I need someone's professional opinion on how to make it better.
P.S I don't care if I get it published or not I just wanna know how good is it. From a professional
Point of View

Answer 1

I'm not a professional poet or poetry critic, but I think I may be able to tell you some things that could help. First, poetry is for the reader as well as the writer. The fact that a poem works best for you in writing it when it is a satisfyingly exact and imaginative expression of your feelings and ideas is the same reason that it can help a reader to release some feelings and bring out ideas that have been caught partly formed inside. When it seems real to you in writing it, it comes across with the force of reality to the reader. I read some of your poems and I will guess you are quite young and very energetic. You've written a lot of poems and put a lot into presenting them for others to read. All of it seems to me to show a good and growing ability with poetry. Some are more convincing than others, and this is where I think you could make a choice that might lead to faster development. When you are writing from your own experience and not imagining the experience of others, I think you do better, and that you will develop faster if you make a practice of it. I think that your poem "Inner-self" is an example of using your own experience, and it is very effective in my opinion. There is more attention to the exact words needed to express what you mean. Some others seem to express what I've read elsewhere and they don't seem to have the sincerity of expression that "Inner-self" has. I think what you already have is well worth a big effort to develop further. And of course reading the best poetry will help in the development.

Answer 2

Good poetry is VERY difficult to write and some have a flair for it and some don't. It is all about imagery and flow and meter. Don't write poetry when you are depressed, or after you just ended a serious relationship. You need to learn about meter. You need to know that poetry is not a hot ticket today and no publishers are actively seeking it. It's really something you do for yourself. Don't become involved in on line poetry contests and anthologies and all that, as they are all a scam. Another hint. DON'T use words like "wanna" in your poetry! Good luck.

Answer 3

You need to re-evaluate your definition of poetry. How can anyone critique unless they have a really warped idea of their own self. Poetry is for those who like it or it touches and we are all touched differently. Ask your peers and you Mom's friends and the guy at the filling station

Answer 4

Submit your poetry to contests, and read other poems and information about what is out there right now. You have to know how to construct a poem and also remember that it's yours, and no one else has to approve of it.

Answer 5

Submit it to a publisher and see what happens.