Here is the beginning of the worst poem you have
ever read, absolutely insufferable. This will
convince your children to not write poetry.
The 3-4 lines of each stanza have the impossible
meter of /././/././ the others rough iambic.
I was 20 years old.
Venus and Adonias
When dawn and early love of light first came,
Fine mist droplets sailed wieghtless through the air,
Gently pushed by wind soft and eyelash tame,
Which filtered golden beams to blue's deep fair.
Here Time approached and opened wide his eyes,
for he knows beauty makes the curious wise.
Dark night made earth loose earthly hold,
Leaves and grass once dry rose and touched high clouds,
Gently greeting rain drops in baby mold,
Though with enlightening dawn earth keeps the shrouds.
In such a blue and airy sea all life
Is simplified and freed to honest strife.
A knoll some silloetted weeds make home
Is the worldly end flat against a wall,
As if night induced gravity to roam,
So steps go slow, not seeing heights to fall.
The sky swoops down and ankles hurried feet,
But minds horizonless see no retreat.
Tall evergreens grow holy temple halls,
Silent, where the birds fear attention kills.
Crickets sleep and rest tired from noisy brawls,
While amassing light moves closer over hills,
Replacing colors darkness took away,
So rainbow eyes may see their matinee.
Thus it proceeds over 1,500 lines, retelling the story
of Shakespeare's Venus and Adonias, with Adonias being a race car driver who gets killed in a race, rather than hunting boar. Can I claim it the worst AND longest poem?
TJ
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