MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – It must have been a slow news day at Rappler.  Either that or its CEO Maria Ressa was just having a bad hair day.

In a tweet, Rappler asked netizens to submit some bad poems in celebration of Bad Poetry Day. What they got were some brilliant responses — not just from ordinary netizens but famous personalities, including Vice President Leni Robredo, former PNoy spokesperson Edwin Laciera, and popular blogger Mark Lopez.

Here are some of the responses received by Rappler:

And here was VP Leni Robredo’s reply…

Even our own publisher couldn’t help but throw his hat into the ring…