Welcome to the Extreme Bad Poetry Society. If you have been following our group, this is iteration 5.0 of this website. Please check out selections which include Bad Poetry By Celebrities, an updated Reader Submission section, and new additions by founding EBPS members.
The Extreme Bad Poetry Society was started by a group of aerospace employees who followed the precepts expounded by Kathryn Petras and Ross Petras in their book Very Bad Poetry. To quote these two authors, to write bad poetry requires a "wooden ear for words, a penchant for sinking into sentimentality, a bullheaded inclination to stuff too many syllables or words into a line or a phrase," indeed to write incompetently.
We can find some remarkable traits in bad poems:
What we wanted was not Very Bad Poetry but very bad poetry for the Nineties - hence Extreme Bad Poetry. As our first example, I took Rodgers and Hammerstein's own example of bad poetry and, in a McCartneyesque twist, took a bad poem and made it worse. Now that it's the next century, we're still back in the Nineties and our objectives and desires have not matured; not even slightly.
Doh! A sound made by Homer S.
Ray, a singer with the Kinks
My, with Lai, is in "Veet-Nam"
Fa goes with -La-La-La-La La-La La La.
Sow, a spread of grain on land.
Law, ignore at your own risk,
Tee, a shirt some wear in bed,
Now we're an octave above Doh!
zimmie
I perused,
I mused,
I enthused,
I give it a high (or is that low) grade for being extremely bad poetry
fibbel
There have been visits
to this intellectual island of excellence since revision 4 became reality.