Appalling Poetry III: In it to win it

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It has been several years since the most recent Appalling Poetry COmpetition. For the curiousity seeker, or the seeker after appalling inspiration, the previous two competitions may be viewed here and here.

I propose another such competition, to be carried out in this thread. The rules for it shall be as follows:

1) All entries must contain some form of the word: fume. Examples of legal variations might include: fumigate, fuming, fumes, fumosity, or fume blanc.

2) You must be the author of the appalling poem you post.

3) The only prize awarded shall be the clamorous disesteem of other ILXors. I am the sole judge and I have no intention of performing any such function.

May the worst poetaster win. Entrants, start your engines.

Aimless (Aimless), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 02:19 (eighteen years ago)

A vaporous fume,
Shimmering in the night
A floating scent,
bringing earthly delight
A wildebeest on high
Ascending in rapturous flight
Cherubs and Seraphim alike
Beholding this glorious Sight

lil' latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 02:29 (eighteen years ago)

Smacked lollipop-loitering pangolin
Who are we that we are,
A beast of burden singing out of our own
Mouths,
Agape, begging for
Worms.
Death's hegemony expands your iron chest
Mashed courtesies finger a lessened tumescence
All together we fall asunder
Under the curse of a terrible blunder
Humanity united in its own fumes of decay
Fireman's ladder never found a way
Burn to the wick
Sick and twistered like tarantula-poison
Tornado,
August smiles a final withered grimace
In pain of red-dress redress
We lock our doors and pump our loins
And nestle like bricks
In the Berlin Wall.

to scour or to pop? (Haberdager), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 02:32 (eighteen years ago)

particulate matter and fume
from the basin on out to point dume
with carpooling moms
and mel gibson's pogroms
and trucks of organic legume

tuesdays with maury povich (get bent), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 02:34 (eighteen years ago)

Scooter is a bad mang.
Scooter can't recall a thing
"Incapable of recall
as a drunken howler monkey
Breathing goofy fumes -
That's me", he claims.

Scooter is a bad mang.
Just listen to his twang,
as he says he twiddled thumbs all
day, as addled as desk jockeys
well can be. Tee hee.
"That's me!" he claims.

Scooter is a bad mang.
Let's twirl him a few times,
Then beat him on the end
that ends up up.

Aimless (Aimless), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 02:40 (eighteen years ago)

Fall lyrics?

lil' latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 02:40 (eighteen years ago)

Off to a fast start, I see.

Aimless (Aimless), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 02:44 (eighteen years ago)

Johnny are you straight or are you gay,
You just ordered Salade de Pomme de Terre au Paprika Fumé

Haikunym (Haikunym), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 02:46 (eighteen years ago)

Didn't I do Fall lyrics in the original TURBO one? I'd forgotten about that!

Also - hahaha - my red meat comic of Dan's poem still works!

Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 02:48 (eighteen years ago)

A green haze, a fume if you will,
rises
from the grate, from the ghastly gutter
as the pungent madam mutters
a curse
to the abscence of the fragrance
of m. grenouille

"Well that was shit". I shut the book.

Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 02:53 (eighteen years ago)

here's a poem


one day I will Follow
U
I aM coming
'Ello

Apple Juice (Apple Juice), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 03:28 (eighteen years ago)

I'm going to pretend the spelling error in mine was part of the badness of it. Yes. That should fly.

Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 04:34 (eighteen years ago)

the abscess of the fragrance?

tuesdays with maury povich (get bent), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 04:35 (eighteen years ago)

Fumble thine football--
pigskin to turf
greygoose lays n egg--

toy'z r us nigga-- U decide--
joy is luck--
U could die!


EAT A SNAKE ON A PLANE!
FREAK A FAKE ON A PLAIN!

eat a cow made of wax . . .
draw a pipe made of cracks . . .

I'M A FAG DRESSED IN DRAG!!!!!!!!!!!!!111111111111
ACT A FOOL WITH AN EGG!@!*(@#$%*(


I drink a cupfull of sand.
I eat a bowl full of cigarette butts.

U stake a claim in the West
You ate the Krang's brain 4 4th meal.


EDADICTDEIHO!

LeRoy Kryptwocker (HGULTRUILLUM), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 04:42 (eighteen years ago)

open the window
open all the windows
the oven is on
the oven has been on
you left it on
there's aluminum foil in the broiler tray
with meat drippings
didn't you notice the heat in here
the carpet is warm
the countertops are warm
didn't you notice the fumes
what kind of an idiot are you
how long have you been in here
in your underwear

tuesdays with maury povich (get bent), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 04:42 (eighteen years ago)

hooray jbr!

friday on the porch (lfam), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 04:46 (eighteen years ago)

you said Is
there anything which
is dead or alive more beautiful
than my body,to have in your fingers
(trembling ever so little)?
Looking into
your eyes Nothing,i said,except the
air of spring smelling of never and forever.

....and through the lattice which moved as
if a hand is touched by a
hand(which
moved as though
fingers touch a girl's
breast,
lightly)
Do you believe in always,the wind
said to the rain
I am too busy with
my flowers to believe,the rain answered

friday on the porch (lfam), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 04:50 (eighteen years ago)

compare to:

One of the bleakest moments in a music fan's day to day life is when those magical transcendent moments are no longer transcendent. You listen to the same 10 second clip of a song over and over again, looking for that little thing in the singer's voice, that change in pitch or whatever it was that made it so amazing, but you just can't find it anymore. You probably end up going to Stylus or the used CD store, or maybe even eBay, looking for the next fix and despairing over your loss of innocence. It's like cumming inside a girl and suddenly realizing that you're no longer in love.

friday on the porch (lfam), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 04:52 (eighteen years ago)

Thank you for your submission. We regret to say it does not meet our needs at his time. Please review our submission policy.

Yours in fumes,

Aimless (Aimless), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 05:06 (eighteen years ago)

f is for the flowers on your grave
u is for the urine on your grave
m is for the motherfucker in your grave
e is for ETERNITY

tuesdays with morey amsterdam (get bent), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 05:55 (eighteen years ago)

you sent a postcard from hoboken
f u me heart is broken

estela (estela), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 06:21 (eighteen years ago)

:D estela.

Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 06:26 (eighteen years ago)

If fume would be my love, Lord,
what a tale my coughs could tell.

Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 07:19 (eighteen years ago)

the slight tang of fumes
lingers in the old garage
jalopies for sale

Jay Vee's Return (Manon_69), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 09:12 (eighteen years ago)

I done a spume
In your room
Through the fume

It's Tough to Beat Illious (noodle vague), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 12:15 (eighteen years ago)

fume in fume out
fume in fume out
fume in
fume in fume out
fume in fume out
fume in

tied to a wheel fingers got to feel

i spin on a whim i slide to the right
i felt you like electric light
for our love
for our fear
for our rise against the years and years and years

got a fuming head better than the rest
green to red fuming head
got a fuming head better than the rest
green to red
and i walk from my
i walk from my fume machine

fume in fume out
fume in fume out
fume in

deaf dumb and thirty
starting to deserve this
leaning on my conscience wall
blood is like wine
unconscious all the time
if i had it all again
i'd change it all

got a fuming head better than the rest
green to red fuming head
got a fuming head better than the rest
green to red
and i walk from my
i walk from my fume machine

fume in fume out
fume in fume out
fume in
fume in fume out
fume in fume out
fume in

got a fuming head better than the rest
green to red fuming head
got a fuming head better than the rest
green to red
better than the rest
better than the rest
fuming head

and i walk from my fume machine
i walk from my fume machine



latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 21:19 (eighteen years ago)

Is that the new Front 242 single.

Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 21:32 (eighteen years ago)

Bacarole

When I was a kid and I had a cold
My mom put a humidifior in my room
and it smelled like mentholatum rub
and it spouted steam, like a fumarole.

I liked to look at it a lot because
it was sort of hypnotic and soothing
and did I mention the menthol smell?
It was soothing and hypnotic, too.

Whereas now when I have a cold I go
to my job like on ordinary 'well' days.
My boss doesn't put a soothing, menthol-
smelling anything in my cubicle.

I want a cough drop with eucalyptus oil.
I want a hypnotic fumarole thing
that spouts steam to look at.
It sucks I have a meeting to attend.

NB: A fumarole is a volvanic steam vent.
They show up in places like Yellowstone
or near the craters of live volcanoes,
but not usually in cubicles like mine.

I bet that meeting sucks a bag of dicks.
It will all be so much rigamarole,
which rhymes with fumarole, and casserole
and won't be hypnotic enough if you ask me.

Aimless (Aimless), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 21:43 (eighteen years ago)

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Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 21:54 (eighteen years ago)

That, if you pardon my saying so, was heinous.

Aimless (Aimless), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 21:56 (eighteen years ago)

I sit and try
You emerge slow and shy
I strain, I shake
You tense, then break
And fly! And drop
To dive, then plop

I leave the room
With a malodorous fume

Rumpsy Pumpsy (Rumpie), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 21:56 (eighteen years ago)

Fumes plumes, and pantaloons, that's what little horseheads are made of.

Lukewarm Watery G. Tornado; Less sick than before (The GZeus), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 22:23 (eighteen years ago)

So cold out of doors
I can't take any more.
With rage I am fuming
and nose-drippings spuming.
Winter you bastard!
Why don't you
pass faster?

Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 23:35 (eighteen years ago)

My black silk long johns exude fumes that
could gag a maggot off a knacker's wagon.
This fact is not droll. It has no flair.
It is not redolent of savoir faire.
It makes me sad. Or, lacking that,
at least it makes
my eyes water, ammoniacally.

Aimless (Aimless), Thursday, 8 February 2007 01:24 (eighteen years ago)

Wow, no more parodies for me when I have a fever.

Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 8 February 2007 01:29 (eighteen years ago)

Writing appalling poetry while feverish gives you an unfair advantage, Chris.

Aimless (Aimless), Thursday, 8 February 2007 01:32 (eighteen years ago)

Go for it!

Aimless (Aimless), Thursday, 8 February 2007 01:32 (eighteen years ago)

Fumes from my race car
bar
the other
cars
from passing
like the gas
that pass
from the underhind
of the legs
keeping one away
from the prize

Fjord Spellman (fjord), Thursday, 8 February 2007 01:35 (eighteen years ago)

it's fumi-fumi-fumi-fumigation time
the bugs are gonna get it
gonna get gonna get it
they're gonna get it good
they're gonna feel it coming down

it's vacci-vacci-vacci-vaccination time
the germs are gonna get it
gonna get gonna get it
they're gonna get it good
they're gonna feel it coming down

watch out pests you're gonna feel the power
watch out freaks you're gonna feel the vibe
watch out dancers your legs are gonna move
take your booty for a dancefloor ride

latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 8 February 2007 01:41 (eighteen years ago)

When I get like this
the black cats hiss,
and psychic fumes
doom
everyone else
in the room
that I'm in,
to their chagrin.
cue the sad
sad
violin.

Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Thursday, 8 February 2007 01:57 (eighteen years ago)

It's no sin
to be on pins
and needles
wondering if the Beatles
will end the feud with Apple
so I can ride my dappled
mare
into the fuming
sunset
over there.

Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Thursday, 8 February 2007 02:01 (eighteen years ago)

Upthread
you said "appalling"
so I see no use in stalling,
fuming as I write more drafts
for an audience this daft.

Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Thursday, 8 February 2007 02:02 (eighteen years ago)

"Imation"

Going back to nature in Elmer Fudd's estate
Shot to cartoon deathbed, an imation bespoiled
By our failure to communicate
The sounds of prideful loathing that connect our lumpen lives a-coiled.

Imation, our belt's undoing,
A beautiful quetzal buried under a ton
Of elephant dung,
Slung from your rump. He winks whilst he's pooing.

Imation, imitation, the image's relation
To burning petrol fumes in a pump attendant's lungs.
He sabotaged the gas station
Now he's all burnt, a glorious immolation.

Awake in this slimming nation with a bucket of ironic
KFC, we guzzle and galumph a fatty gauntlet
All the way to the piggy-bank, moronic
And crying all the while, "I'm not pwnt yet!"

However, all yea be lost, the lighthouse
Flattens its master with a sigh,
All the sea-gods rise and stiff-wing fly
They must beseech the rain to douse

Our destiny, imation's call, Pete Sampras' second serve
Netfirstserve and WHAM! We're shorn
Of limbs, imation's fall, the downward curve
That takes us round the Cape of Horn.

At last to practice martial arts alone, aloof,
Be the Christian to a self-same lion.
Land head-first to break your neck and see the blessed truth:
All it took was I, mat...I, on.

to scour or to pop? (Haberdager), Thursday, 8 February 2007 02:04 (eighteen years ago)

Latebloomer's poem is awesome rather than appalling.

Matt #2 (Matt #2), Thursday, 8 February 2007 02:06 (eighteen years ago)

Beth's violin and L3o's 'touched a girl's breast lightly' poems are the two best so far, IMO.

to scour or to pop? (Haberdager), Thursday, 8 February 2007 02:08 (eighteen years ago)

I twizzle by a broken flower
Behold...the winter passes
Turning into spring
With a sizzle
Where now are the fumes of autumn?
The bonfires are burned out
On the lawns of California
And I...the only one left
Look to the ocean
With a memory
A cornucopia

Matt #2 (Matt #2), Thursday, 8 February 2007 02:12 (eighteen years ago)

More moronic lines we need
for the crappy verse stampede,
insult your public!
That's the stuff
take another pinch of snuff
squint down through your monocle
sorry, no perfect rhymes were found
fuck it all, you bassett hound!
Now I'm fuming! Can't be true!
RhymeZone
I will bury you!

Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Thursday, 8 February 2007 02:13 (eighteen years ago)

wait wait
are we allowed to
conjugate?

Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Thursday, 8 February 2007 02:14 (eighteen years ago)

There once was a man called Bloom
Who got in a bit of a fume

Can anyone finish this for me? "Crack of Doom" at the end maybe? I've run out of inspiration.

Matt #2 (Matt #2), Thursday, 8 February 2007 02:19 (eighteen years ago)

There once was a man called Bloom
Who got in a bit of a fume
when his ex-wife came into the room
dressed in a princess Leia costume
he said "oh shit oh shit oh shit oh shit"
was I ever married to such a twit?

Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Thursday, 8 February 2007 02:25 (eighteen years ago)

I fume
as you eat your beef and mushroom
like you haven't a care in the world
like I had not just hurled
my bidimbap across the table
when you called me unstable.

Other patrons steal glances,
whispering; the Maitre d' blanches.
Not a normal night at the Blue Lotus.
You pretend not to notice.
Kimchi drips
in fermented cabbage strips
from the rim of your wineglass.
You have balls of brass.

Surfer_Stone_Rosalita (Surfer_Stone_Rosalita), Thursday, 8 February 2007 02:26 (eighteen years ago)

Rogue d's make me fume
When they find their way into words like
"biBimbap".

Surfer_Stone_Rosalita (Surfer_Stone_Rosalita), Thursday, 8 February 2007 02:30 (eighteen years ago)

we may be sporty
and we may be slick
we may be nice
or be a dick
but some of us
are downright sick
fuming in fact
needing a slap
upside the head
then sent to bed
to sleep in our own foul smell
for not knowing what the hell
is biBimbap

Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Thursday, 8 February 2007 02:39 (eighteen years ago)

whatever it is
this isn't a quiz
woe to the girl
who hurled it
from the pit
of her tummy
at some loathsome rummy
she's dining with
oh! fumes of doom
I summon you
may your aim be deadly true
slay the man
who made her blue
the rotten poo.


Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Thursday, 8 February 2007 02:44 (eighteen years ago)

Aimless, why did you do this to me?
force me to write bad poetry
I might have made something of myself
notwithstanding a half-century on the shelf
I've shot my wad, I'm feeling gloomy
don't laugh, goddammit, it isn't fumey
this thread has come at too high a cost
syllables here, I'm off to watch L O S T.

Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Thursday, 8 February 2007 02:54 (eighteen years ago)

Bibimbap is Korean food
And it's really rather good.
Kimchi's fumy
But it's good when you're rheumy
And "bulgogi's" the most fun to say.

Surfer_Stone_Rosalita (Surfer_Stone_Rosalita), Thursday, 8 February 2007 02:57 (eighteen years ago)

f u,
f me.
f em together.
that's the fume that we see.

Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 8 February 2007 03:33 (eighteen years ago)


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