Saturday, November 07, 2015

I was wrong about that poem being the worst poem in the world

Confession time. The other day, I posted a poem I found on Facebook, claiming it is the worst poem in the history of the English language.

It has since been brought to my attention by a Twitter pal that I am wrong. Very very wrong.

I  am acutely aware that this is Remembrance weekend, but still, this piece of art cannot be ignored.

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Poor Shakespeare. Did he die for nothing? Even local newspaper editors, always desperate for anything to fill their letters page, would balk at this horror.

And there is more by the author out there. In fact, she has three self-published books of poetry for sale on Amazon, so it might be worth a punt on a fiver just for shits and giggles.

7 comments:

Rich said...

Even William Topaz McGonagall is spinning in his grave!

Alicia Foodycat said...

Nice to see Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings survived the destruction of Earth.

Bardic Barton said...

The Great Circling Poets of Arium have spiralled into a volcano rather than take any more.
Would a petition on Change org do any good? The one addressed to David Amess MP "Say No To Cake" is doing well with 201 signatures.

Ole Phat Stu said...

Will wrote "I know you all, and will awhile uphold
The unyoked humor of your idleness.....", antipating this "poetry" perhaps?

TRT said...

...Interesting rhythmic devices...

Mr Larrington said...

"Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder."

Aktually it is not me it is a weed called ahelley

Mr Larrington said...

shelley. Curse my stubby peasant fingers!