# bad poem
**URL:** https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/bad-poem/7400
**Category:** Creative Writing
**Created:** [November 4, 2005, 6:10pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/bad-poem/7400 "2005-11-04T18:10:49Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@Colinsign](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/Colinsign)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2005, 6:10pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/bad-poem/7400/1 "2005-11-04T18:10:49Z")
it occurs to me that i have been too guarded!
as if i first had to establish some credentials
in order to be taken seriously…
if a man claims to be an Idiot- you will not be disappointed! (ambiguous)
the Art of appearance
is clearer than
the deceptions
of the apparent…
(does that make sense?)
What is poetry…? A needle and thread…
poetry is trying to
happen right now
between fingers
mind and keyboard
can poetry actually
be written on computers?
I seriously doubt it.
This is not a poem.
Vain artless diatribe.
The predominance of BAD poetry
far out weighs good poetry
poetry is itself the limp
flower of the human spirit
a kind of honest-femininity!
a kind of soul jerking
honesty monstering
wound sharing
neutral ground
that nobody
can stand together
for too long
how much do you really
want to know about a
person?
in the final analysis
we are all thin
snippets of paper in
a cheap book
fragmentary
wandering
mooncalfs
of chance
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### Author:  [@Atalanta](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/Atalanta)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2005, 8:58pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/bad-poem/7400/2 "2005-11-05T20:58:17Z")
> [@Colinsign](#):
>
> in the final analysis
> we are all thin
> snippets of paper in
> a cheap book
>
> fragmentary
> wandering
> mooncalfs
> of chance
…paper dolls. Bad Poem may not be a poem (to you), but I like it. …at the moment, perhaps, I’m drawn to “Vain artless diatribe” (as you call it.) 😕
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### Author:  [@The\_Underground\_Man](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/The_Underground_Man)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2005, 10:37pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/bad-poem/7400/3 "2005-11-06T22:37:33Z")
I really like this piece. The absurdity of poetry, yes? I hear you, I understand – thank you. But its very ironic, anti-poetry that is. The contradictions, the absurdity…
And where but in poetry can man embrace the contradictions? Perhaps you are a fan of Whitman, who seems to have, more clearly than most, hammered that point (embracing the contradictions).
The irony will always be that anti-poetry is poetry, anti-art is art – the age of irony, indeed.
p.s.
This poem actually seems to me to be targeted at Bukowski – I know it probably isn’t, but I think you can see why I make the connection.
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### Author:  [@Colinsign](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/Colinsign)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2005, 12:08am UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/bad-poem/7400/4 "2005-11-07T00:08:46Z")
I read Bukowski quite a lot. (I hope I am not just a cheap imitation)
I have always written in a kind of anti-art-art manner…what more can a person say other than I am sincere in what I write…sincerely bad perhaps!
Glad you “got something” from the poem! Cheers.
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### Author:  [@itsancho](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/itsancho)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2005, 8:27am UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/bad-poem/7400/5 "2005-11-30T08:27:43Z")
Poems for poetrys’ sake;
Thought profound;
If rhymes there;
So what?
Lakes for waters’ sake;
If lotus blooms;
Swans bathe;
And fish swim;
So what?
Good or Bad;
Songs that are;
Tales of heart and soul;
Are beautiful.
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### Author:  [@Alexistentialism](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/Alexistentialism)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2005, 9:27pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/bad-poem/7400/6 "2005-12-02T21:27:08Z")
you mean good poem, right?