Poetry in Places in Which One Would Not Expect to Find Poetry
a collection of my favourite poems
This page is inspired by tumblr user bunjywunjy, who once, in response to the question "Do you like poetry?" enthusiastically answered that yes, she did, but then cited several "poems" that were either not intended to be poems or were not considered high art by those in literature academia. In my early life, I was pressured several times to produce poetry, and what I produced was really "jokes that loosely followed common poem formats". This impressed people when I was a skinny goofy highschool dropout, but when I went to college, I found myself immediately ostracized by my fellow students with an interest in poetry, so I gave it up completely. Thank you to bunjywunjy for reminding me (and, through this page, hopefully also you) that you don't have to study art to produce it.
untitled werewolf poem, twitter user Lindsey "shminsington", sometime before 2021
table of contents for a subsection of the Wikipedia page for the Fermi paradox. This is no longer on the page, and I can't be bothered to go through the page's edit history to figure out exactly who added and then removed it.
scrawlings left on the whiteboard of whichever class came before mine in the USU ENGR building on a September Wednesday in 2023
the final stanza of a poem written by Data in Star Trek: the Next Generation season 6 (1992). It's unclear who wrote this poem, but Brannon Braga, Jean Louise Matthias, and Ronald Wilkerson are credited for writing the (unnerving) episode in which the poem appears.
post by user trucyisright, 2026, appraised by user goldensunset in 2026
I'm afraid I'm not willing to go look through gay porn to cite this one. if you've got it, email me
"Sad day today", unknown, 2018
long-term nuclear waste storage caution message developed by Sandia National Laboratories in 1993, based on the work of Vilmos Voigt (1940-2025)
untitled fridge magnet poem assembled by an old robotics buddy of mine, 2024
a classic
"story time", Anon #726490398, 2016
post by user loudly--unladylike, 2022
"The First Lines of Emails I've Received While Quarantining", Jessica Salfia, 11 Apr 2020
Fragment 147, Catullus (incorrectly attributed to Sappho), unknown, discovered by Dio Chrysostom in approx. 100 AD