bad poetry

t.s. eliot online
yesterday i screamed out loud when i remembered a poem i'd written...and actually shared with people. it was a demented moment, sharing that poem. i shall suffer forever after.

good poems are hard to find. poems printed in the TLS cause me to shudder at times. some are very nice.

i grew up reading my mother's favorite poets, so they hang on, like her blackberry pie and early morning solitudes. as a six-year-old child, i favored tennyson & co., as a teen i preferred american poets, and i still like t.s. eliot.

"I should have been a pair of ragged claws
Scuttling across the floors of silent seas."