How about celebrating all the things that you do not like? Make a list of things that you do not like to look at, touch, taste or listen to. Try to find something good in each idea. Look at how I have tried to find something good in each thing that I do not like. Use the same sort of structure for your poem.
I hate looking at custard
But I love its yellow colour.
I hate touching stinging nettles
But I love the way they are barbed
Sharp as an injection.
I hate tasting cold porridge
But I love the way it clogs
the sink.
I hate hearing the scream of the
dentist’s drill
But I love the way it roots out
decay.
Pie Corbett
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