{"id":2492,"date":"2013-08-28T13:15:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-28T13:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=2492"},"modified":"2026-01-15T17:23:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T17:23:38","slug":"a-day-of-bad-poetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=2492","title":{"rendered":"A Day of Bad Poetry"},"content":{"rendered":"

I decided to phrase the title of the post this way, rather than referring to the actual name of the day that was August 18 – Bad Poetry Day<\/a>. You see someone actually created the day and copyrighted their idea, so that, if you want to make reference to this day, you have to contact them and if you have monetized your blog, pay them. Here’s the site<\/a>.<\/p>\n

My preference is always to read good poetry, however, I know that I write really bad poetry \ud83d\ude42 So I guess I missed my day to “shine.”<\/p>\n

One of my lessons, when I was teaching poetry, was to take a recognized poem and emulate it. That is, use its structure, but substitute your own words. For example:<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

\n

\nWho Has Seen the Wind?<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n

BY CHRISTINA ROSSETTI<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

\n
\n
\nWho has seen the wind?<\/div>\n
\nNeither I nor you:<\/div>\n
\nBut when the leaves hang trembling,<\/div>\n
\nThe wind is passing through.<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

\nWho has seen the wind?<\/div>\n
\nNeither you nor I:<\/div>\n
\nBut when the trees bow down their heads,<\/div>\n
\nThe wind is passing by.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Car Keys<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

\nThen you do something like this:<\/p>\n

\nWho Has Seen My Keys<\/span><\/p>\n

Who has seen my keys
\nNeither daughter nor son
\nBut when it’s time to go to work,
\nThe keys are never found<\/p>\n

Who has seen my keys
\nNeither son nor daughter
\nBut when I check my coat again
\nThey are where they oughter.<\/p>\n

Please post your own emulations !!<\/p>\n

Have a great poetry day!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I decided to phrase the title of the post this way, rather than referring to the actual name of the day that was August 18 – Bad Poetry Day. You see someone actually created the day and copyrighted their idea, so that, if you want to make reference to this day, you have to contact […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2493,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2494,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2492\/revisions\/2494"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}