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Terrible poetry

Posted: 17 Apr 2010, 08:00
by Fee Verte
I would like to ask for some help. I have been asked to put together a list of terrible poetry. What I am looking for is mawkish poems with terrible forced rhymes. Anyone got any pointers for me? I am not really looking for obscene ditties or anything of that kind. I admit I am a bit lost with this. thanks.

Posted: 22 Apr 2010, 05:13
by brownnataly21
Why do you need to publish terrible poetry at all? Is this an educational moment to see how people shouldn't right or what?

Posted: 25 Apr 2010, 16:50
by lagym888
Well looking for such broken poetry is difficult pal.. But you could try making your own bad wrong poems..

Re: Terrible poetry

Posted: 31 Jul 2014, 19:53
by thsavage2
Terrible poetry is mostly a matter of personal taste. I had an English professor who really didn't like Matthew Arnold's "Dover Beach." When he read the line "Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled," he interjected, "That's a regrettable line." But most people consider this a fine work of poetry (the version I read was published in an anthology), so it mostly depends on the person.

Re: Terrible poetry

Posted: 04 Sep 2014, 21:10
by Bluefirerose
Hmm, we all have poetry we don't like, but "terrible"? I think some of the poetry I write is terrible, but we are all our own worst critics. I find that if you force yourself to write, that is the only guarantee that it will be bad. However, if you write when it comes to you and as it comes to you, it will turn out much better.

Re: Terrible poetry

Posted: 09 Sep 2014, 00:28
by dirtsmithy11
Just listen to any modern pop song. The lyrics there are bound to be rife with poor taste. If you want to take it further...look at people in countries trying to mimic the Americans.

Re: Terrible poetry

Posted: 09 Sep 2014, 04:08
by lilbitty87
I really do not think poetry can be terrible, it is about the writer and how they are expressing themselves in it. Poetry is a way to share your thoughts and feeling with other people who may understand what you are feeling, but if I had to id say terrible poetry to me is when someone is just throwing words together that have no meaning or understanding. No meaning or passion or effort in my eyes would be terrible poetry

Re: Terrible poetry

Posted: 09 Sep 2014, 13:05
by stoppoppingtheP
the cat
sat on the mat
and it was fat.

joking :)

Look at rap songs and you will find a lot of bad rhyming there I think.

Re: Terrible poetry

Posted: 08 Oct 2014, 17:18
by Ryan
Check out this poem by William McGonagall. It stinks! :D

http://www.mcgonagall-online.org.uk/gem ... e-disaster

Re: Terrible poetry

Posted: 08 Oct 2014, 18:22
by rssllue
stoppoppingtheP wrote:the cat
sat on the mat
and it was fat.

joking :)

Look at rap songs and you will find a lot of bad rhyming there I think.

The dog
Sat on a log
Invisibly in the fog.