Aaron and Dave dive into an old private journal to read poems written in high school. Along the way the two have found themselves joined by some incredibly amazing people, all willing to share some of their own bad poetry. Experience a mix of self-reflection, humor, self-deprecation, great conversations and just maybe a half decent poem!
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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 2 days 14 hours 6 minutes
episode 5: Shemjaza, [...], Glass, & Misiones (w/ Luke Wortley)
Content Warning: The final "bad" poem does deal with a death by suicide. Covering 34'-40'. _____ Luke Wortley tries a bold strategy coming on the show, which is exploring tangents long enough to never actually get to any of his "bad" poetry. Even his first poem distracts the co-hosts with the painting the ekphrastic is describing! Nevertheless, poems are discussed, from garbage to mitigated garbage, ending with a beautiful prose poem that is very good...
episode 4: She Is...
Dave and Aaron return to their normal format after the Thanksgiving break just as previous Aaron seemed to return to his (rather unfortunate) normal form. The hosts get to brush up on the now classic "toxic masculinity" critique to see if slightly older high-school Aaron has matured at all. While Dave saw a glimmer of hope in a few lines of compassion, Aaron couldn't get past the cringe.
My Bad Poetry Episode 5.4: "She Is.....
Bad Songs-giving
Aaron's sister delivers on a hope first expressed in episode 5.1 "Not Long Song...Not Long," providing audio files from a cassette tape in Aaron's past. Dave and Aaron take a break for the Thanksgiving Holiday but not before taking a listen to these never before shared "songs" from a piney-whiney high school Aaron circ. 2008.
Warning: amateur emo piano ballads may cause unexpected ear bleeds and/or thoughts of grumpiness.
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episode 3: The Devils Playground
Sickness could not prevent this podcast from being recorded. Though maybe it should have... Dave and Aaron continue to work through the uncharted lengths of the latter pages of the Wolf Journal. What hellscape have they stumbled into? Listen along to find out!
My Bad Poetry Episode 5.3: "The Devils Playground"
End Poem from a Real Poet: "XLVI [Many red devils ran from my heart]" by Stephen Crane
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episode 2: A Reason
Another failed song from the pages of the Wolf Journal has Dave all kinds of frustrated. Too short, bad rhymes, toxic message, these are just a few of the reasons the hosts came up with...not to love this one.
My Bad Poetry Episode 5.2 "A Reason"
End Poem from a Real Poet: "I attempt from love's sickness to fly" by John Dryden and Sir. Robert Howard
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episode 1: Not Long Song... Not Long
Welcome to Season 5! Dave and Aaron turn the page in the Wolf Journal to find a new genre of highschool Aaron's writing... lyrics. While this song may have tried to describe the immeasurable feelings of young love, the length of the stanza quite short. Or not nearly short enough according to Dave.
My Bad Poetry Episode 5.1 "Not Long Song.....
episode 21: Our Bad Introductions
Feeling nostalgic and a little crunched for time after 100 episodes, Aaron gives up on a blooper reel and finds a whole host of oddities in the uncut recording of "My Bad Poetry- Introductions" from Season 1.
A promo that ended up being just under 3 minutes took nearly 9 minutes to record. Which actually is pretty accurate to how the show still sounds behind the scenes.
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episode 20: A Word of Advice
Dave and Aaron reach 100 episodes of the podcast and are somehow still dealing with Wolf Journal entries. High-schooler Aaron writes not from the mind and it shows as he tries to give advice on how to write. Considering all that has come before, maybe these words should be taken with a grain of salt. Also an abandon thought hangs out on the same page. Dave and Aaron take about as much time on it as previous Aaron apparently did.
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episode 19: The Prince & Old Photographs (w/Megan McDermott)
"Look at Old Photographs/ Everytime we do it makes us laugh."
Megan brings so many gems to the show, yet the crew only had time to discuss two of them. Partly because they kept getting off topic with clergy stuff, and mainly because these works from a 17 year old Megan have layers. From romantic idealism to jaded pessimism all within the span of a stanza, Dave and Aaron find the rollercoaster of near rhymes and moonlit miracles well worth the ride...
episode 18: Return to the Wolf Journal
Having covered all of the typed poems from Aaron's high school anthologies, Dave is sad to learn that the Wolf Journal is far from empty. Aaron finds three loose stanzas to get the show back into the pages of these handwritten "works."
My Bad Poetry Episode 4.18 "Return to the Wolf Journal"
End Poem from a Real Poet: “If you shed tears” by Rabindranath Tagore
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