Make a list things in life that you find ugly, shameful, or repulsive–things like foot odor, rudeness, cockroaches, road kill, belching in public, etc.
Choose one or more items from your list to include in a poem.
For an extra challenge, see if you can transform something usually deemed ugly into something desirable, beautiful, and worthy of admiration.
Poems for inspiration:
The Zingara Project 