Bad poetry was rife, much as good poetry wasn't. Not all poetry I wrote was a limmerick, flame or self pitying escapist philosophising. Hand A great inspiration for poetry is, strangely enough, poetry itself. If you have read a few of the poems so far, you will have noticed that I have done as such with Edgar Alan Poe's The Raven . Heresy is when the mere existance of a work using a recognisable rhyming scheme is an insult to the universe.
Heresy is poetry's equivalent of a tasteless joke.
For a better idea of what I'm talking about, take a look at these 'poems'. They are tasteless in intent, but not in content - no parental advisories is required. My topics for short stories have been extremely varied, and most stories I have begun have never been completed. To be honest, most never passed a single page draft. To better explain, my favourite authors are Douglas Adams, Isaac Asimov and Frank Herbert.