Worst poem ever

Yes, the punctuation is on purpose

From the devil who roams
(We spend our dimes
Bloody darkness sometimes rhymes
Blessed be
The sanctity
Of meandering unlavened prose
Toss about some weak metaphor
Flowers... Maybe the Moon. My toes
Zippidy-f*****g-do-dah
Yeah, a curse word, that will sell
A thousand words rhyme with sell
But I am going to go with spill"
Then maybe I'll end this poem with a

Dramatic twist
...Or not

More flowers and junk
I once bought a skunk
An implication of suicide
Might draw the readers to my side.

I vomited forth a mass of roaches
Now you have to live with that imagery.

Reviews

[Nix is typing...]

Okay so... I literally laughed at the end. I can't lie, I liked this "worst poem ever" I know the last line was intended to be vulgar and repulsing, but I actually bust out with a smile and a laugh. 100/100

[anais.vionet]

I'm feelin' ya. But I've seen worse than THIS... I written worse than this

[AJNJ]

I'd rather read a poem about a loon than a moon
and about frogs than flowers! They're certainly done to death. I enjoyed this poem and the point made with much humor. I feel gimmicks in writing work but only to a certain extent. I loved the imagery of vomiting a mass of roaches! Thats awesome!

[Chris]

The problem with using "hard" imagery is the flavor it imbues upon the readers, psyche ...often to the detriment of the author's intent. 'Cept of course when the author had it in mind from the beginning.

Can there BE bad Poetry? Of course... and possibly all of us have written and spoken on the topic a time or ten. I've even seen awards given for such ...pieces. For some ...horror movies echo real life - is what makes the movies so gruesome anymore rather than entertaining. I liked how you led your reader by the proverbial hand through your thoughts... the end had no shock value though - not anymore. I wonder over a dramatic twist?

[iliOZ]

the missing (parent)thesis or other diacritical marks may not be a sign of the missing cognate and as such will not contribute to the worst poem ever to be.
you provoked the mind without them, so bask friend!
we still have to wait for the worst one

[T.S. Ulmus]

Now I want to try harder to create the worst poem. I think I can do worse. I'd create a competition but I don't really want to judge it, what a horror show that would be. Thank you for the review.

[Marina]

Such an interesting poem, TS. Certainly written for fun and with tongue firmly in cheek. We have all written some clangers from time to time but I am sure there are some who write then badly consistently. One thing that stands out for me in your poem is the reference to flowers, the moon etc.....themes of poetry that have been done to death and beyond. It's always worth trying to be original and creative to the max. On those points, your poem has succeeded and i appreciate the veiled humour in this one. 💛

[T.S. Ulmus]

I am certainly guilty of some of the very things I mock in this poem. Thank you for the read and the review, the words of a talented colleague are always welcome.

[iliOZ]

a metaphorically perfect mirror to devalue all the standing-byes ... those who prefer no to see not to hear not to say a thing.
it is a plague destroying us all.
good hymn to awake the human in us.
you are in my hearth, peace

[barleygirl]

I love this spoof on the way some poetry feels a little contrived. I try to be as outside-the-dots as possible, but I still require meaning & structure to satisfy my mind. I don't want to have to work so hard trying to figure out what some gibberish means, when we only get a clothespin here & there, stringing up some raggedy remnants in the wind. I love how you employ many of the annoying idiosyncrasies (such as incomprehensible punctuation) we often see in flagrantly self-righteous thumb-your-nose stabs at poetry. But alas, even your spoof is more "put-together" than some of these mind-boggling exercises in verse! (((HUGS))) Fondly, Margie

[Delmar Cooper]

I have vomited far worse than that. Worse because it covered several pages. This was confined to one eye widening sentence so it is an acceptable, even pleasant regurgitation. The rest of the poem was really good too, but one has to say something special about a mouthful of roaches.

[Unspoken poet]

This is effing amazing, I totally love this write, awesome