Good Poetry/Bad Poetry 

(or My Poem/Your Poem)

Good Poetry/Bad Poetry  (or My Poem/Your Poem)

for Tom, Dick, and Harry

My poem is rich in emotion
Your poem is sentimental

My poem is free verse
Your poem lacks structure

My poem is iambic pentameter
Your poem is dog trot

My poem’s style is reminiscent of Yeats
Your poem sounds too much like Dickinson

My poem is experimental
Your poem is a mass of confusion

My book of poems was self-published
Your book of poems was printed by a vanity press