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Fair Warning To The Peotry Branch: <i>Cheesy Rhymes</i> (A Review of "The World's Worst Poetry")
The Telegraph (U.K.) ^
| 08/03/02
| Tom Payne
Posted on 08/08/2002 8:46:51 AM PDT by Gumlegs
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Be careful out there. Stephen Robins could be reading. (I wonder if my favorite bad poet is included, J. Gordon Coogler? From his
Purely Original Verse,Alas for the South! Her bookss have grown fewer/She was never much given to literature. Perfectly ghastly).
See here.
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posted on
08/08/2002 8:46:51 AM PDT
by
Gumlegs
To: Gumlegs
Sloppy work. Next time the "preview" function doesn't work, don't take that as an indication of perfection.
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posted on
08/08/2002 8:48:44 AM PDT
by
Gumlegs
To: RikaStrom; otterpond; coteblanche; dubyaismypresident; JamesWilson; pa_dweller; Bella_Bru; Argh; ...
Ping.
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posted on
08/08/2002 10:35:44 AM PDT
by
Gumlegs
To: Gumlegs
Like this?
take care of your pearly white teeth
they fill your mouth with content
ignore this advice and beware
you'll probably learn what it meant
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posted on
08/08/2002 10:40:12 AM PDT
by
otterpond
To: otterpond
roses are red
violets are purple
sugar is sweet
and so's maple slurple?
or
roses are red
violets aare blue
some poems rhyme
but this one doesn't
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posted on
08/08/2002 10:51:36 AM PDT
by
camle
To: camle
or
roses are red
sugar is sweet
i like the girls
that give me a treat
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posted on
08/08/2002 10:57:47 AM PDT
by
otterpond
To: Gumlegs
I once had a job as a freelance editor for a publishing company that specialized in self-publishing: the author pays puts out the money for all the work that goes into it. My job ranged from proofreading, to rewriting, to writing critiques. Once I was given the job of critiquing a few hundred poems written by a guy who had been honing his skills for probably a couple of decades...and was still as rotten a poet as you can imagine. It was shear torture to read through those poems, all of them sounding alike, all of them having the same meter and cadence, but with a few dissonant lines or words thrown in to make you screw up your face. Before long I could almost always figure out what he's going to rhyme...and they ALL rhymed (provided you broaden your definition of rhyming just a tiny bit). I got so I could only do about 10 pages at the most of those poems, then would have to take a break and just clear my head. I had a couple of hundred pages to get through and was expected to read them all and make comments.
Perhaps the hardest part of that job, besides just reading the tripe, was writing the critique. Since the company makes its money from people who decide to publish their stuff, I didn't think I could completely reject this guy's stuff. On the other hand, I didn't want a book like this unleashed on the unsuspecting public for fear of the consequences and that my name might somehow come up in association with it. So I had to look for just those few poems which seemed they might have a tiny bit of merit and encourage him to work on these and get them ready, then to make general comments on the rest without being too harsh on his ego.
To: otterpond
Pretty gruesome. Thanks ... sort of.
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posted on
08/08/2002 11:37:32 AM PDT
by
Gumlegs
To: Singapore_Yank
Yow! I'd have killed myself. I believe "hudibrastic" has been used to mean a deliberately bad rhyme. John Barth has used it that way. It's usually a mock-heroic poem, although bad rhyming may simply be implied there.
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posted on
08/08/2002 11:40:54 AM PDT
by
Gumlegs
To: Gumlegs
Thanks ... sort of. My pleasure. LOL!
To: otterpond
i like the girls
that give me a treat
otter!
A sugar treat?
A sweet poem?
A dream of
a scheme?
A girl of a deam?
Or a sweet potato?
:O)
Are you naughty or what?
bf
To: bentfeather; January24th
Are you naughty or what? i've danced with some girls who were naughty
they suggestively wiggled their body
i looked on with pleasure
but waited for pressure
i vamoosed when they had to potty
To: otterpond
but waited for pressure
i vamoosed when they had to potty
Then I knew --I was really naughty--
as I dreamed on them being squatty
at the potty!
To: bentfeather
Then I knew --I was really naughty--
as I dreamed on them being squatty
at the potty!
Okay, that may get us both banished. I don't think JimRob is a big fan of toilet jokes! :0)
To: Gumlegs
I'm only the 5th person pinged to this thread? I need to work on my poor poetry some more. ;-)
There once was a chick from Nan....
To: Gumlegs
One bright day, in the middle of the night,
two dead men got up to fight.
Back to back, they faced each other,
drew their swords and shot each other.
A deaf policeman heard the noise.
He came and shot those two dead boys.
If you don't believe this lie is true,
ask the blind man, he saw it too.
To: lowbridge
I had to study stuff lots worse than that in high school.
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posted on
08/09/2002 7:24:31 AM PDT
by
Gumlegs
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To: coteblanche
Maybe this will revive it.Are you sure that's wise?
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posted on
08/09/2002 1:11:54 PM PDT
by
Gumlegs
To: JamesWilson
There was a chick from Nantucket
who carried her roses in a bucket
the roses, strange enough were not red
but were pink and yellow instead.
but one thing held true
all her violets were blue
as blue as her eyes,
the color of Nantucket skies.
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