Warning: It’s Bad Poetry Day

We’ve all seen the attempts that people put out in the name of the arts, but bad poetry is just that…bad. However, around here, even when it’s bad, it’s still good so grab a pen and do what you will inspiring keeper of words, because today is Bad Poetry Day. Today is after all, your day to practice the delicate art of crafting words that flow for the world or perhaps you might want to keep them to yourself.  

Writing isn’t easy, and it takes a special creative mind to string them together. Not just anyone can convey emotion and arrange the words on a whim. This is total creative freedom at its finest and sometimes its worst but there are no rules of engagement here except to flex your fingers and get to writing. It’s your creation, after all.

According to MasterClass, there are “15 types of poetic forms” so choose one to share that suits your style let’s see what you’ve got.  Your work may be near and dear to your heart or might make others roll their eyes but either way, it evokes emotion and that’s the whole point, right?

If you’re not feeling so daring to try your own hand at writing, there are always Metal Spoken Word versions of a classic from Poe called “The Sleeper”. If you really want to dip into something a little dark and real from something more current, maybe you’d like to listen in to twenty minutes of spoken word by Henry Rollins entitled “Monster” from “Black Coffee Blues”.  

No matter how you wish to indulge yourself (or torture others), today is all about commemorating bad poetry and no one is safe on these streets.