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Misguided Measures

This dank corner is set aside for poetry which is not merely badly written but also thematically off-target, which takes as subject the inherently unpoetic and whose base metal stubbornly refuses to turn to gold.

As samples of the genre and for your enlightenment, I have collected poems on the following subjects:

I would welcome any suggestions for other poems that might join this illustrious list: please email me if you have any.

On other pages of this web site you can find rotten poems by Frank Harris, Amanda McKittrick Ros and Webster Edgerly.

For further examples I wholeheartedly recommend Nick Page's World's Worst Writers site.