Posts Tagged poetry
Ugly Poetry
Posted by Amy Renee Haines in Personal Reflections on December 4, 2017
Ugly Poetry
Today words are ugly
and poems that use
pretty words
disgust me
Trying for some transcendent
place by being
witty
and spewing the “ripples on the pond”
banality
Why not a poem filled
with ugly words?
dust or cancer or
clutter or
decay?
Even these are too
pretty
and it’s not enough
to just be angry
or hurt or
betrayed—
Words don’t always
have to inspire
or lift up
Poems don’t always
have to lilt
I want this one
to fall
flat
and get hurt
Amy Renee Haines 