Bad Poetry?

"There are no bad poems, only different kinds of poetry."

 Aaaaaaggggh! No really....aggggggggghhh!  Like Derma, I can unequivocally confirm the existence of bad poetry. Good thread. I love the fact that some of the heavy hitters in this community are weighing in and saying, "It's ok to have a negative opinion of something." It really is. Everyone who's ever written has probably produced at least one piece of complete shite on their way to producing the really good stuff. (On reflection the one possible exception to this is W.H. Auden or "insert the name of YOUR favorite poet here.".) And sometimes, you produce shite and don't recognize it's shite until someone is gracious enough to spend their time on it and then state a supported opinion of why it's shite. It's interesting that most of the people who've weighed in here do that regularly and well. It's also interesting that most of them are the people I consider some of the better writers on this site. (Honestly...I swear, I am not trying to suck up here.) The way I look at it, is how can you produce the good stuff, if you don't define what you think constitutes bad stuff? So thanks to you all who've weighed in here. Thanks for daring to care enough to form an opinion one way or the other.