Ugliness is in the eye
There's no point in asking why
It's all relative you see
What you like is bad to me

Bad poetry is hard to write
Don't vote me down just for spite
Fine tuning here is what I need
To have a good bad poem indeed

that's pretty good

Unknown, yeah, I'm talking to you. Membership is free. Just a heads up for you.

5 out of 10 for rhyming Dr W.

Hey Hey

Yeah, but if I like blank verse, rhyming is bad!

45 views and only three votes? What's with that? Come on, guys, VOTE!

That says something in itself.

Too damn mediocre, eh?

At best.

lol

Rick,

I'm a little late in responding to this post,
I took a sabbatical the past 8 weeks to study your poem.

I am prepared now to respectfully offer my carefully considered critical dissertation as follows;

Chapter I

It could be worse, (i.e., better.)


Postscript:

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying it's good, it is a bad poem,
I'm just trying to delve a little deeper without soiling my proverbial "pants" in the process.

The trouble I have is I'm still uncommited as to how to qualify my claim.

When I say, "it could be worse" do I mean to say the badness of the poem could and should be worse, (that is, better, as a bad poem?)

Or, do I mean to say that what good there is in the poem could be worse?
Meaning, the good is bad but not too bad.

(It took me quite a few reads to find the good in it. The joy of discovery rewards perserverance!)

Or perhaps I should be less empirical in my critique.
Could it be in your writing badly that you are being too self-conciously bad?

Perhaps when you approach your bad writing you need to connect further, (or deeper, or more widely) with your intrinsically, naturally, in-bred talent for the badly writ verse.
(just don't ask me what that's supposed to mean, I'm just throwing it out as a question.)

I'm sorry, what was I....?

oh, sh*t, my ears are bleeding again...
never mind...

I have to lie down now.
Bye.

Shawn

Your response was worse than the poem, and that's saying something. Well, I say that metaphorically (or do I mean metaphysically or some other metaword?) as I quite liked the poem. So it probably means that I quite liked your response too. But I'm known for my bad taste. So does that make the poem worse than bad? I think that Rick should stick to Haiku (watching our for the odd dropped syllable, of course) and clever scientific stuff. And leave the poetry to we prols.