{"id":320131,"date":"2025-11-26T13:59:49","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T13:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/adventure\/i-forgot-to-stop-writing-bad-poems-for-several-years-semi-rad-com\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T13:59:49","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T13:59:49","slug":"i-forgot-to-stop-writing-bad-poems-for-several-years-semi-rad-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=320131","title":{"rendered":"I Forgot To Stop Writing Bad Poems (For Several Years) \u2013 Semi-Rad.com"},"content":{"rendered":"


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About three years ago, I decided to start writing bad poetry on a fitness app I use regularly.<\/b> When I checked last week, I had written more than 500 poems. Mildly curious about whether any of them were halfway decent, I gave them a quick read. And then \u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2026 did someone offer me a significant sum of money to publish some of my running poetry in a chapbook? No.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

OK, but was I pleasantly surprised to discover that I had, through persistence and hard work over three years, become a great poet? Also no.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

What did happen is I waded through a 500-plus page document and found that I had written a lot of bad poetry. But, some of it\u2014well, hold on just a second:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

How I originally started doing this was: Back in 2022, I read this book of poetry and essays by Chris La Tray called <\/span>One-Sentence Journal: Short Poems and Essays from the World at Large<\/i><\/b><\/a>, and loved it. Then I listened to <\/span>a 2020 episode of my friend Ed Roberson\u2019s podcast, Mountain and Prairie<\/b><\/a>, in which he interviewed the author, and Chris shared the process of how all that poetry became a book. That process, to put it in bullet points, was:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n