Quick! Before the poetic police get here

I’m not frightened
about writing a bad poem.
Why should I be
I’ve got plenty of them.
It’s not as if
I’m going to hang
from a verse
until the heart
of the stanza
bleeds dry.
No! No! No!
Not me!
I’m going to swing
on the tentacles of a thought
that has wrapped around me
and grind graphite to paper.
There the thoughts will flow,
all the meanings out there
will come together
in the grand finale -
it’s death and the final
resting place.
So catch me a star
and I’ll light it for you,
see the comet tail
whereby in a years time
all coming together,
we can call it
The Bad Poems Anniversary.
Listen to the crowd.
Give us a really bad poem.
Oh! Listen to the rhythmic flow
as they chant in metered tongues.

Bad poem! Bad poem! Bad poem!

In the meantime,
I think I’ve
swallowed a syllable.

Reviews

[Sami Khalil]

When you see the flashing lights, pull over; you are in trouble. You will be booked for swerving in and out of poetic lines; drunk on metaphors as a skunk.
After fingerprinting, you will enter the slam for bad grammar, poor taste.
Hehehe!
I will bail you, or you can plot an escape plan.

[andrew mitchell]

Belated thank you Sami.

[Sami Khalil]

You are welcome sir Andrew

[Arundass TP]

I don't think there is good and bad. Even both are creative ideas of writers. Language may be the problem of making good and bad poem. Good poem on bad poem 😁

[andrew mitchell]

Thank you Arundass for stopping by.

[andrew mitchell]

This poem came about when I was going home from doin* a night shift listening to Pink Floyd and I was pulled over at a police roadside blitz on drink drivers around midnight. Of course I was sober having just finished work.

[Julie McCarthy (juliesp..]

Love the metaphors cute poem well done
I’ll gatecrash to the bad poem party too
Cheezels or jatz ?

[andrew mitchell]

Thanks Julie and you are welcome to come but I don’t think you do bad poems.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

I'll bring the deviled eggs to the gathering!

along with some devilishly bad poems....

j.

[andrew mitchell]

I don’t know if you’ll get passed the doorman , I’ve never read a bad poem of yours Jacob. But you can only try lol.