Wednesday, August 18, 2010

TODAY'S OBSCURE HOLIDAY is "Bad Poetry Day"

The movies are gray
The TV is black
The horses are running
Please bring me some food

- Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz, Doofenshmirtz Evil Incorporated

August 18, 2010 is "Bad Poety Day." According to Wellcat Holidays & Herbs , the creators of this day, the intention of "Bad Poetry Day" is to gather a group of old high school friends, "compose some really rotten verse, and send it to your old high school teacher."

That sounds like a lot of fun. But, if you're like me and so far out of high school that you've lost track of your high school English teacher because he/she isn't on Facebook yet, then how about you dust off those awful -ly constructed (but clean!) poems you've been collecting in your notebooks and share them with us in the comment section below? Or, in the comment section under this post on our Facebook Page. (We are a family friendly site and no offensive submissions will be approved for publishing.)

Hey, maybe you're a poet but weren't aware of that fact, of it, being a poet...oh, nevermind.

10 comments:

  1. I network a lot
    In season and out
    Am trying to flout
    The stats.

    The stats make my life ... well
    Harder to live
    "In this economy"
    None want to give
    Me money.

    But I hope for the best
    I Visa the rest
    Now that's what I need....
    A snooze!

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  2. I'll, I'll
    Yes, I'll smile
    Smile, smile
    All the while
    Unless somebody
    Steps on my toes
    Then...grrrr!

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  3. If you said, "Me!"
    And I said,"Ow!"
    would that make
    the cat's meow?
    If I cry "Woe!"
    and you saw M,
    would that make
    a pretty poem?

    ~Laura R

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  4. reflection in a little lake
    far too clear for goodness' sake!
    i could only see my nose-
    i got some protest from my toes.

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  5. may i tell you very quickly
    just how much i do admire
    your simple and effective
    way
    with
    food?

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  6. from wiggle to squiggle
    and back again
    as quiggle a squiggle
    as ever you can
    you may niggle a squiggle
    and tiggle a squiggle
    but only the very siggleiest can!

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  7. There once was a man from Dancart,
    Who ate beef with his sweetheart,
    He suddenly burped,
    He belched and he slurped,
    And then he started to --- SNEEZE!

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  8. This holiday's a joke
    And that's for sure
    Cuz bad poetry is a poke
    At those who can't actually write poetry but try because they think it makes them clever.

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  9. Roses are red
    Violets are blue
    They had so many children
    They didn't know what to do.

    The red ones were grumples
    The blue ones were slurples
    But the craziest ones
    Where the ones that were purples.

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  10. I before e
    Except after c
    Or in sounding as a
    As in neigbor and way
    Or in springtime
    And Summer
    And sometimes in May.
    You'll always be wrong
    no matter what you say.

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