Write Your Worst Poem
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Poem-writing Poem
Scansion exists for a reason;
scansion-less poems are nearly treason.
Rhythm and rhyme
all of the time
regardless of time or the season!
But sometimes, with luck,
writing poems won't suck,
and you'll write a poem in blank verse like Milton or T. S. Eliot or someone like that.
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And, just for fun:
This is the po'm that does not rhyme!
I'll poke the rhyme out with a tine!
If you expect a lot of rhymes, then you are out of luck,
because this poem's gonna end before I can say fu--
*thread explodes, showering us all with bits of paper, slate, inkwells, and quills*
Pyroglyphian
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A poet picks up his pen…
and, with nothing further to riddle,
fiddles, twiddles the middle,
lids its nib once again.
But wait!
He thinks he’s found inspiration!
Oh... but no,
he’s just rhyming "pen-masturbation."
and, with nothing further to riddle,
fiddles, twiddles the middle,
lids its nib once again.
But wait!
He thinks he’s found inspiration!
Oh... but no,
he’s just rhyming "pen-masturbation."
"Out, gout!"
He cried with a shout.
(I've been suffering from gout for the past 3 days. I can't think of anything else. Hopefully the above poem is bad enough).
He cried with a shout.
(I've been suffering from gout for the past 3 days. I can't think of anything else. Hopefully the above poem is bad enough).
Did you know
Pain in a toe
Can hurt worse
Than real bad verse?
Pain in a toe
Can hurt worse
Than real bad verse?
This poem is toe-tally bad, and that's irre-foot-able. But not to worry, I'll soon be back up on my foot.
(Sorry)
A Stoopid Poem 
O fishy, fishy, fishy, fish!
Thou art indeed my fav'rite dish!
For thou were caught in ancient Kish;
to grill thee, I would not cry 'pish'!
I'd serve thee to an Irish bish
or to a girl by name of Trish
for whom fried plaice is quite her wish --
yet I'd not place thee on a shish-
keBob, keHenry, or keFish!
And though thou may not look so swish,
prepared well, thou art so delish--
to thee I wrote this poem, fish!
The poem above made Shakespeare wroth;
To me, a raven thus it quoth.
(12 lines of silly rhymes, plus 2 lines of a separate rhyme, ending in two archaic words. Does it count as a Shakespearean sonnet?)
O fishy, fishy, fishy, fish!
Thou art indeed my fav'rite dish!
For thou were caught in ancient Kish;
to grill thee, I would not cry 'pish'!
I'd serve thee to an Irish bish
or to a girl by name of Trish
for whom fried plaice is quite her wish --
yet I'd not place thee on a shish-
keBob, keHenry, or keFish!
And though thou may not look so swish,
prepared well, thou art so delish--
to thee I wrote this poem, fish!
The poem above made Shakespeare wroth;
To me, a raven thus it quoth.
(12 lines of silly rhymes, plus 2 lines of a separate rhyme, ending in two archaic words. Does it count as a Shakespearean sonnet?)
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