/r/ShittyPoetry
Poetry "so-bad-it's-good", focusing on radical free expression for creativity.
This is a subreddit to relentlessly express the uncensored truth that is in your heart's brain.
It is encouraged to bring out your inner pretentious poetry critic as well as to tell the OP how and why you enjoyed their work.
We aren't poets, and we know it
Alas, we wish to show it
Though it's rot with no thought
Our art will be sought, or you'll be fought
ABOUT
A subreddit to fully express the shit that is in your heart.
It is encouraged to bring out your inner pretentiousness and tell the poster how much you enjoyed his work.
The "moderators" will randomly and unashamedly assign flair as they see fit.
If you have a problem with your flair, feel free to write a poem about it.
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I did it all for the nookie
Come on
The nookie
Come on
So you can take that cookie
for an empty line And Stick it up your, yeah!
Stick it up your, yeah!
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I sit here and try to rhyme
To put my heart here on this page
But how am I supposed to say anything
When everything means absolutely nothing
Tell me the secret to make it
All mean something again
Like it did
Now everything I used to love
means nothing
Or Mayve it is me who
Lost his meaning
Now that laughter becomes annoying
And voices become noiseless sound
I don't like who I am becoming
But I don't know how to stop falling
This poem is shit
Just like everything else
I'm walking through the woods again
Naked and alone
I'm skipping through the foliage
All the trees seem monotone
I don't have dagger, gun or knife
With me on my way
My only weapon is my voice
I'd rather not use it, if given the choice
But alls not well, nor as it seems
In my nightmares turned to daydreams
Twisted paths begin to sway
If I get lost, will I find my way?
And every path that has a light
is much too bright, a blinding sight
But I must find my way back home
On this dizzying path I roam.
I can't breathe in
My final breath
I try to take it, but there's no air left.
I feel like I'm going to be sick
But when I try to puke
It's only air, and the feelings I rebuke.
Tears drip drop
I fear I'll drown
If they don't stop, or at least slow down.
I'm spiraling down
Over and over again
I'm trapped in fear, I'm lost in sin.
Here,
Let me give you a hand.
I know you are trying hard.
I know you've fallen
And bumped your knees,
And maybe even your butt
One, too many times.
I know you are scared
And I know that it hurts.
Here,
Grab on.
You don't have to be alone.
I am also learning to walk.
As time goes I find myself In new lows continuing to drown in dirt and magma this earth is trying to kill me in
The further I get the more it drowns my thoughts and emotions out and I can’t seem to find a phone line long enough to let me voice the fog of my own mind
Sometimes I wonder if I’ll truly be able to connect to those around me before I remember I’m thousands of miles underground with no one in sight
And every word I say feels like it’s floating through space
The type of space that doesn’t carry sound
And I wonder if my numbness to this is the reason I haven’t escaped
I digged this tunnel in my grandparents backyard at the ripe age of 9
And since then I’ve been digging
And digging
And every once n a while I think I see light
So I dig even deeper chasing for it
each year there’s nothing waiting for me but a boiling vein of lava
it’s been eons and yet I still don’t know how to live in a life with no dreams
Sometimes I don’t realize I’ve woken up until I’m right back in the darkness of my own mind
Suddenly love’s so MGM
I can’t stop loving you M
The kiss we shared on that bench
I can’t let go, my heart is all wrench
Your eyes as you said the three holy words
Your affinity for Skyrim and playing the Nords
Your funny texts on WhatsApp
That day I wrote you a Diss rap
Your sweet little kisses on my neck
Why’d you have my cardiovascular system to wreck
Sippin’ wine on your parents’ porch
In my heart you lit Almond’s torch
I cried and cried like O’Sullivan sings
When we kissed I started thinking of rings
You were such a beaut and hellishly cute
Why did you decide my heart to shoot
Eyes like Daenerys, derriere like Jada
To get you back I just gotta
But to you I ceased to be
By now you’re probably married +3
I try to love others but it’s hard
So I am just a lonely bard
“Living in the Past” is my eternal song
Don’t stop reading, I won’t go long
I loved you like I never loved before
Anything with you was never a chore
You have a mortgage on my heart
In another dimension we have a brand new start
You can slam a door in my face
A dozen times
And I’ll wonder what I did wrong
Add two more dozens
I’ll worry we don’t belong
(That’s thirty-six)
When it slams when I speak, I plead
Fourty-seven more times
I feel weak in the knees
Please, question me
That makes eighty-three
Look through your peephole and see
There’s no need for the last seventeen
I know that you’re mean
An axe to grind, you slam and scream
But go so hard
You break your own door
And you stand in front of open floor
Nothing left to guard you anymore
From me, or from anybody
What do you do now
When you don’t have a door to slam anymore?
I walked a path of wonder past bushes of growing peas
A burning church, an apple orchard, and a woman who spoke to trees
My eyes grew weary as the time had warped my face
My arms were coated with saggy skin, and my shoes had missing laces
I’d grown on my journey to an area not long forgotten
Where people sung, the plants all grew, and evil had not long rotted
A place free of torment was bound to be lost in time
For people only dream of places wondrous, loving, and kind
So when my innocence bursted like a blown balloon
My journey home was interrupted by an unexpected typhoon
It swept me south, it swept me west
It brought me to places i thought i knew best
those places i’d been to in thoughts and dreams
were some of the most beautiful that i’d ever seen
so when my house appeared up on the horizon
I said goodbye to skeletons, goodbye to sirens My front door opened like a gush of cold wind
That brought back remembrance of where i had been
Years upon years of bathing in sun
The memories I had that all blurred into one
The polaroid cameras, the small trips to the moon
All the dinners my mum made, and all the aliens we’d lose
And though this can be captured in a frame, frozen in time
The bells of the past continue to chime
Paradise isn’t a place where you go, kingdom in the sky
But it’s your memories of childhood in the bed where you lie
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Coyotes are a hoot. And known to play the public bun.
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They run around my neighborhood. Snacking in the night. Using howls, barks, and yips. They run in groups of eight.
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Perhaps you'll see from time to time. These beings we share the light with.
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In the meantime, it should be known, coyotes are cool...
.
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it's like a house with no foundation
built on shifting sands
trying to stand upright
but constantly losing its balance
it's a tree in a hurricane
with roots that are weak
trying to weather the storm
but constantly at risk of being uprooted
it's like a leaf on a windy day
tossed about with no direction
trying to cling to the branch
but it's hard to hold on with no protection
it's like a heart that's breaks
into a million pieces
trying to mend its cracks
but they keep on spreading, never ceasing
it feels like a wound
that won't heal
a cut that's still bleeding
and can't be sealed
it feels like a ghost
haunting my own life
a presence that's felt
but never seen
it feels like silence
a heavy blanket
smothering the sound
of my own heartbeat
it feels like lust
a flame that flickers
hot and bright
but never warm
it feels like obsession
a constant hum
a buzzing in the brain
a noise that won't be tamed
it feels like love
but not the kind
that lifts you up
the kind that weighs you down
that's what it feels like to be me
forgotten hours
the clocks don't mark a time
so it dissolves like sugar
my thoughts are going nowhere
in this moment, we are free
to chase the highs, to seek the thrill
to lose ourselves into the haze
of unadulterated pleasure still
I am so hungry for a Zwazo steak right now, my mouth is watering like I just bit into a juicy, salt covered lemon! Help me lordy, feed me! THE LORDYS PRAYER: 🙏🤤As I lay me down to dribble, find me food and I won't quibble, In my head the steaks are dancing, In my mouth the teeth are nashing, long in love cause meats my passion, salads and garlics all peppers and spices, Oh lordy please feed me within these devices! Amen! Edgar Allen Fooshee. 🙏😋🤤
shake me when i put shoes
to ground infect me give me
rabbit chaos and bugs take
me to emoticons flay me
fly me high above the sun
seed me alienate my dna
and nerves tantalize my thirst
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the preachings of brosef
listen, he was a man,
of the people dont crash
the bus, crash the, system
two make nice with fam,
step 3, be good to dogs,
love cats much number 5,
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release. transmit. learn new
things. release. transmit. go.
in the presence transmit
what is sex?
sex is a sin, a whispered lie
a hidden truth, that only my dreams can deny
what is virginity?
i ponder on the concept, lost in disarray,
a notion shrouded in mystique and might:
virginity, a virtue (or so they say in sight).
a garden that's locked and overgrown
a stillborn star that refuses to ignite
in this surreal landscape, where logic is astray,
i find myself saying, in a voice that's not my own way,
"i don't want to be a virgin anymore,"
Ok chatGpt prompt
That I named Crunk
Because u silver tongued
Whatcha got?
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A story about an insane lad
Told to sleep by himself
Kicked out the marriage bed
Now living at his own pad
A room next door thing...
He messed up bad
A toxic clown
That's not an insult
Just something I saw
While using his saw
And swinging my hammer
An observation
Combined with
witness statements
.
What I discovered
Is that this manboy
Put hands on my girl
When she was just 15
His fingers he wrapped
Around her neck
Causing hurt and angst
.
At the time
I couldn't be seen
Because I wasnt clean
And the scene was mean
.
Oh dear goodness
What am I saying?
Well:
The moral of the story is
I don't gotta be Notorious
Just more observant
And scrupulous
I can feel the coldness approaching once again.
As summer subsides and the days are sacrificed to autumn.
An evil birdy is sitting on my shoulder, it chirps curses into my ear.
At a volume only I can hear, at a frequency only I can touch.
There is a void lingering inside this soul.
There is hurt trapped inside the basement of my heart.
There is pain crammed behind these eyes.
The end is nowhere near yet one can always dream.
I have nothing to write about anymore
The things I once thought were inspiring now a chore.
I remember how I got excited simply meeting her
Now it seems like a lie, something adjourned
There's nothing left on this Earth that could give me reprieve
An ever ending echo of how I am the one who is deceived
If you can't be content, you'll never be happy
God knows I'll be high again before new years eve.
It's sad to me how if I am not in love
I am full of endless negativity of what
All that lasts is a pointless bluff
A selfish piece of shit, nothing is enough
Lost and alone, broken with no home,
A useless adjective describes what is shown,
A cavity of a shadow of being nothing alone
They say love yourself, I love how i don't
For it's a pointless grandiose meaningless show.
Every talent used for praise but I'm alone
If I was better maybe I'd build a new home
But nope. I'd rather live in the dirt for it's what I know
I'll try to be honest, my vices aside
It's not like I wanted to hurt anyone pastime,
I really thought I could love someone once upon a time
Now I realize I fall in love with emotions. a pathetic lie
Earth, the great AR
To see where this is going
You needn’t look far
Automatic Rifle
How many rounds does it hold?
Is it enough to break the mold?
Of society.
The sickness that took hold.
It’s a desperate man’s hand.
One last stand
A card better left in the deck.
What the heck?
What relief exists like bliss in the mind of a killer as he releases the rubber grip?
If only he could get a grip
on the hope that was swallowed up with his soul
The souls it feeds. As many as it needs. That cantilever system works in full action auto… how exciting
I created you and now you must listen.
Do you hear?
The earth is firing its rounds. No need for hell hounds.
The earth mounds it’s piss-soaked victims corpses for courses
What’s the caliber?
Look through the sights
There is no need to size when the bullet hits right between the eyes
every single time.
Without reason or rhyme.
The earth has no motive just like so many of your white washed fellow faces
Any races
whether plagued by insanity or paid with profanity the perpetrator of his wrath will ultimately be stricken down in his path by the greatest of all ARs
EARTH
ARTHE
RTHEA
THEAR
HEART
Sexualizing these thighs since the beginning of time.
A girl whose life was already set up for trauma.
Quiet in the dusk. Allowing men to rule her.
Vibrations of fear and lust between her.
Longing for love. Silence becomes her.
They expect all of her but only take parts of her.
Mourning the old her. Grieving the free her.
Soft and fluttery like feathers in her pillows. The same pillows filled with her tears.
Night time comes and nobody knows her secrets. Sworn to secrecy but dying to tell. Why won’t someone help her.
They never ask if she’s okay. They take what’s not theirs. She gives her all because she’s afraid to lose the only ones she has left.
Losing herself but gaining nothing.
Let's move to a little lost town on a lake,
We'll tend the bars, and we'll open the bakeries,
We'll build a landmark in the centre of town:
As an ode to the day we decided to found:
The coziest town on a lake in the forest.
The paddlewheel rolls round and round,
Just like the seasons pass throughout,
But our minds and hearts are set on our marks:
To keep our town from turning upside down,
In our cozy little town on a lake in the forest,
We moved when we found it had no one around,
And we kept its charm and dairy farm,
With just us few who only knew:
About the little lost town on a lake in the forest.
DEFINITELY SHITTY - Hypo manic for 3 days depressed tomorrow
These thoughts won’t stop so I let them in
I crave attention but I’m a hermit.
Visually unhinged replaying the same sad story in my head like a record from 2000s boy bands
I call him because I want him but I hate him and he hates me. It’s not fair because i actually feel nothing at all. Why does my brain hurt. Why am i crying. Crying for someone but I feel nothing for no one. In bed all day. I can’t tell you when I showered. I can’t tell you when I will. But I don’t stink because the sink is my friend. Tears fall. Hearts cold. Dreams of waking up in heaven. Hypo makes me feel like heaven. Depression feels like death.
Hypo manic for 3 days depressed tomorrow.
in the hollow of my chest, a socket waits for the plug of your approval
i am a doll, a marionette, with jerky movements and scripted words.
the lines that blur, the edges that fade the me that's lost, the me that's made.
i'll rewire my brain, whatever it takes: my thoughts, my feelings, my every desire.
when i stand in the mirror in front of the reflection of my emptiness
looking for a fleeting glimpse of who i am, without the weight of influence,
that will be okay, because in the museum of my mind, a single exhibit stands:
a relic of our love.
i handle it with care, with reverence and fear lest it shatter, lest it disappear.
don't leave me, don't leave me, don't leave, i'll be nothing at all. ♡
When I’m missing you
I close my eyes
and all I see is your face
but lately I don’t see anything clearly
I see hazy grey
flashing lights
my friends draped over furniture
pools of blood
and beer
I see panic
and fear.
My breath becomes heavy
until I forget how to breathe
I cling to your face
the vision, the calm
Come back and take me
away from this storm.
kaleidoscope of colors
shifting and morphing
reflections in a dirty mirror
two broken things
two shattered minds
the world outside
a distant echo
a fading signal
a muffled scream
i don't want it
i don't wanna think
i don't care at all
i want to feel your weight
on top of me, inside me
your skin on mine
a fleeting comfort
your arms around me
each other's shadows
we find a moment
of fleeting peace
from the crushing burden
of existence
In the dark, in the dirt, in the grime
You're the only light, the only thing that makes me feel alive
You're the only thing that makes me feel like I'm still human
You're the only one who makes me feel like I'm not alone
A presence in the emptiness, a shadow that's my own
In the ocean of my tears, in the waves of my sorrow
You're the only thing that makes me care about tomorrow
You're the only thing that makes my nothingness feel like a something
You're the only thing that makes this abyss feel like a womb
A shadow in the spotlight, a phantom in the frame
A flower in the toxic waste, a bird in the acid rain
♡
I am a soft girl
wrapped in a hard shell
Cloaked in a silk.
my teeth drip
in anticipation .
of A taste of a living thing.
maybe If I
pretend a while,
those boys will fuck
this soft malaise, into a bloody pulp
until I can’t tell
which breaths those hurts caused.
Hurting you is hurting me.
Something that was to never be.
Thy name means pure.
Far from pure, you see?
Full of flaws and errors.
I am not the person who you seek.
For she’s lost but soon, in time she’ll peek.
I’m bitter and I don’t know what to do with my flavor
I let words spew from my mouth, all coated in lemon
Eyes green with limes
Searching for the envy covering my thoughts like zest
If I convet enough you, will I soon turn sweet?
If I devour you whole and let my tastebuds become yours, will your flavor be mine?
Tell me dear, do you too melt like burned candy?
I want you to become mine
I want all that you have
Does your blood too taste of honey?
So I guess that's it then,
Enjoy your cake or whatever the fuck you call it
I was a means to a petty end,
Enraged and that has turned me to a petty-holic.
Enjoy your fat ass of a husband,
I'm sure you'll identify with what you have inside,
Begging me everyday to compliment your body
"The wrinkles aren't that noticable right?"
Love isn't enough for some, it's barely enough for me
I wish I didn't mistake a woman wanting out of a marriage for that but anything
Twas' a scapegoat for a corkscrew Mormon
To fuck another person she could cry about to her next husband.
It's funny how they say "I'll be the prelude to what you really need,"
Yet I'm alone eating Cheetos and looking at you married before I even leave.
Something tells me behind most smiles in pictures
There's misery of abuse and people barely caring
If I see a woman smiling and a man barely grinning,
I know that marriage is all but confined and dying
Then I look at everyone else in this life,
Slowly dying trying not to act like all that's inside
Is vanity, money, means of looking good to somebody,
It's all a stupid picture you can post in this age to everybody.
And that is the truth of why I wasn't shared to anyone but you
A confined secret of a mistake I took and shouldn't of with you
Fuck all the morals, I've broken every law
As I look back on my corkscrew Mormon, I remember all her flaws
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You'll make a good story in a bar someday
If I don't have a catheter in my penis maybe I'll find my way
Telling my stories about how I shouldn't be here today
Lust is a fools prize, fuck the game of love I play