Bad Poem
Standing in the corner
Bad poem
Stick a needle in my eye
Bad poem
Dripping blood and roses
Bad poem
We're all gonna die
Up late
Cats scratching on my window
Can't wait
To catch you in the act
Up late
Heart beat on the pumpkin
Some fate
Got a hairball to be hacked
Bad Poem
Got me going crazy
Bad Poem
Got me singing to the sky
Bad Poem
Swigging whiskey in the bunkhouse
Bad poem
It's a fact and its a lie.
You can't
Be a fly upon my window
You can't
Be blood upon my stone
You can't
Take me high upon a mountain
You can't
Be a mug of frothy foam
Bad poem
I read you in the morning
Bad poem
Got me tightening a noose
Bad poem
Has the best of my ambition
Bad poem
In the name of Mother Goose
I write
The wrongs of my intentions
Can't fight
The dying ember bore
My sight
Is hampered by a vision
Too tight
In settling the score
Bad poem
You hear em in the Navy
Bad poem
And gag a maggot puke
Bad poem
No it ain't Wavy Gravy
Bad poem
Full of purple greeny hue
Rainbows
Dancing cross the heavens
Lame bows
Crossing stellar skies
He knows
It's a revolution
It grows
But it don't edify
Bad poem
Don't know where you're going
Bad poem
On a field of jagged glass
Bad poem
Bleeding on my carpet
Bad poem
Pain upon my ass
Can't see
An imagination
Can't feel
Naught but pain and woe
Give me
Some more degradation
Can't move
Half a mile to go
Bad poem
Sinking in the twilight
Bad poem
Stinking on the vine
Bad poem
Musing inspiration
Bad poem
Simple sordid rhyme.
Author notes
Bad Poem? You decide 
This was quite a fun contest. Thanks for running it.
Written October 26th, 2005
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I love the wry humor
I love humor in a poem or a good story. I'll try to avoid any of those phrases in any of my future poems.
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Glad you enjoyed it, Barb . It was delightfully fun to write. I think it is always nice to sit down and write something purely for fun without thought of artistic value
So much of judging poetry is pure oppinion, and even the trite and true has its place. I think that we often mimic ourselves and others initially until we reach a point that we look at our own work and say ick, this all sounds the same . I know that I have tons of stuff from younger years that sounds like I was trying to be Shakespear with bad english. I have far more tolerance for a poet that uses phrases that are a bit overused to state their meaning, than a contest holder who refers to everyone elses work as crap and cliche, while their own is filled with enough blood and roses to keep me cleaning my carpet for an eternity.
I know that when I was in school, my tendency to say things a bit differently got me in trouble a lot. Sometimes teachers in our school systems can be quite void of imagination even when teaching classes on --creative-- writing. And of course, most adults cringe at youthful attempts at --shock value--. I think that often the clicheness we view is a persons attempt to be acceptable. I am glad to just see people continuing to attempt to grow in a creative process and hope they will eventually find their own path. Lol, one man's crap is another man's poetry, I suppose.
Hope you do enter the contest. I am sure we will be in for a treat and some laughter
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This was really quite fun to write and I think at some point it will make some good fun lyrics for some --wall of noise-- music. I think this was a great idea for a contest. I really am not bothered too much by anything I consider --bad-- poetry since so much is a matter of personal preference, age, etc. Lol, there are even some of the classic old poets that make me want to duct tape my eyes shut at times . But we have had some--not all, but some-- contest holders who have been a bit rude and pretentious about their desire for good poetry. I pretty much refuse to enter a contest that basically calls a person a dummy for cliche and not using spell check, when half the contest info is mispelled horribly and when I view the contest holders work and it is as cliche as anything on the site. How the pot loves to call the kettle black
Thanks for the comments, glad it brought a smile or 2. Laughter was definately intended
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I'm sorry this failed abysmally, yes it's bad for you, it's horribly repetitious but it's heaps better than an awful lot you see on here, you should have just copy & pasted,
Oh no that's plagurism, though i doubt you could be sued for it...
I might have a go at this -
Absolutely inspiredly terrible Some of the lines weren't actually that bad, but about 90% was perfect. With a first verse so awful as that, I knew I was in for a treat! Thanks a lot for entering
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