Terrible poetry

[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.

[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?

[lagym888]

Well looking for such broken poetry is difficult pal.. But you could try making your own bad wrong poems..

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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

[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.

[Ryan]

Check out this poem by William McGonagall. It stinks!

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

[rssllue]

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.