home.social

#badpoems — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #badpoems, aggregated by home.social.

  1. An original #poem from Rat:

    Honestly, I could submit
    —anything—
    I have composed since
    Graduate School—a mess of
    pretentious
    attempts to //break // the // form //
    born from the academic marriage
    of Theory and Art
    by postmodernist professors—Derrida!—was our watchword!

    - -

    But perhaps #poetry is really
    the last daisy petal, small and simple,
    white yet wrinkling,
    falling silently to the dirt.
    Perhaps poetry is meant
    to be felt
    as we all feel
    the fading of summer into autumn,
    while the drying daisy petals
    stand as browning tombstones
    to "summer," to "time;" to "cycles."
    Perhaps poetry is meant to be shared
    around warm fires in the winter
    to remind us
    of daisies.

    #BadPoems #HashtagGames #Postmodernism #PostmodernPoetry #Academia #Pretentiousness #CriticalTheory #CreativeWriting #Writing