The Bad Poetry Seminar
Writing Our Own Poems
Now let's try writing our own poems. Here are some suggested topics:
Dogs and Their Lovely Barking Sounds
Why I Enjoy Drinking Tea
God: My Hope and Salvation
The Many Uses of Leather
Once you've created your masterpiece, visit one of the many online resources for critique and see how you really measure up. In the meantime, here's my offering on a subject close to my heart:
This is the Bad Poetry Generation!
Let it rip!
Let its mediocrity
offend the librarians!
Let its witless profanity
embarrass the churchgoing!
Let its saccharine sentiment
nauseate the aesthetes!
Let its sheer volume frighten
everyone!
With our Sword of Bad Poetry we will rend
the chains of earth!
With our mighty Bad Poem Cannon, we
will blow a hole in history!
With our legions of Bad
Poets, we will
outnumber the Future!
--Sparrow
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