terrible poetry – Peregrine Arc

Prepare yourself. Take a deep breath. This week’s Terrible Poetry Contest theme is love. My entry is below. Best of terrible luck to you. May the bard’s strings break and curl from hearing your poem.

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The Green Love

My love for you is like pickles, my dear
You’re like a giant pickle yourself.
Wrinkled, vinegary, tart and you make my mouth pucker

But frogs, my dear–consider
Will never croak our love ballads out the way you do
Birds fall out of the sky, dead at your winsome, cat crying tones.

Screams! My love for you is but a ballad of curled beards
Curled like your toes made of mahogany wood
Oh my dear, I sigh in love
Like a dill pickle.

-A. R. Clayton

Contest Entries, Short Stories & Poetry

Terrible Poem: “Oh, I’m a Gonna Go!”🎶

January 18, 2020 Peregrine Arc: An Author's Scratchwork

Oh, I’m a Gonna Go!

I’m a gonna go out where the wind durst blow
Sand in my knickers and mud in my toes
Where cow pies rightly disappear and the crickets eat them dangburned rusted bandoliers!
Where the guns don’t get to shootin’,
Where there’s no high brow falutin’
And everyone dances ’till half past three…
If you need me, why that there where’s I’ll be…!
In the Land of Absolution…!

-A.R. Clayton

There’s too much fun to be had at this week’s Terrible Poetry contest. Have fun and keep writing. ✏️

Contest Entries

Terrible Poem: Bleak Mid-Winter❄️😴 (humor)

January 14, 2020January 14, 2020 Peregrine Arc: An Author's Scratchwork

Let There Be Light

I don’t mind the cold or that white stuff they call snow
What I mind is the lack of light, if it’s forty days in a row.
Something kicks in, some hibernational urge
And I find myself laying in bed
Snoring a symphonic dirge

– A.R. Clayton

Want to take a try? We’re here, cheering you on. Happy writing. ✏️

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Author: Terrible Poem About Love💚

Terrible Poem: “Oh, I’m a Gonna Go!”🎶

Terrible Poem: Bleak Mid-Winter❄️😴 (humor)