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:
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Hello dear Lisa, I don’t think this sent yesterday… but to add to the thank you for creating the Transformation Poetry project, thank you for using my poem! — it took me aback to see one of my own poems used for a reference! I totally forgot I wrote it! thank you for posting it~
On those lines, I wrote a poem inventing a “machine”… the prompt was to name it after yourself. My old nickname, up until I was 10, was “Kit”… so I invented a “Kitolover”. Last night we had gone to see an unusual version of “Great Expectations”, so maybe this morning, in Dickens’ mode I was thinking of Oliver… I suppose it could be pronounced Kit ‘ o’ lover, but that had less subtle sophistication and I wanted this love machine to be taken seriously. At first I did not foot note that “burnt offering” is the literal translation of Holocaust. But forgetting seems to be part of our human condition. Here is the poem: 
Kitólover Who will buy this (wonderful morning?) sings Oliver.
—brand new machine easy to assemble—
specially designed to dismantle war in a flash—
decorticate atrocity, denial burst bubbles of myths of burnt offerings. Kitólover, accent on the second syllable so it sounds like abscond* uninhabitable not a Wolaver, (family name) meaning wulf army in woods not Bolivar, now the currency of Venezuela.**
Kitólover, the lover of fair play, a kit for all to use to love. Who will buy this (wonderful morning?) sing Oliver.
[1] <applewebdata://6A37D3CD-2F76-4538-917B-3C8F5741650D#_ftnref1>* reminder of the definition: leave hurriedly and secretly, typically to avoid detection of or arrest for an unlawful action such as theft: [2] <applewebdata://6A37D3CD-2F76-4538-917B-3C8F5741650D#_ftnref2>** named after the hero Simon Bolivar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simón_Bolívar
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So glad you stopped by and happy that the post and shout out to your deserving poem also made you happy!
Thanks again! 🙂
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