Some of my favourite poetry by others (Some of them VERY obscure!)
(Some taken from "HOW TO BE WELL-VERSED IN POETRY" edited by E.O. Parrott)
If anybody has any poetry more obscure than these offerings, please send them to me!

Title	Author	"'She dwelt among the untrodden ways/And wore green wellies all her days.' MARGARET ROGERS
A Devious Creationist	'CUTTLEFISH'	Brilliant poetical take on Ben Stein's Expelled film, plus dozens of other excellent poems.
The Raven's Story	PETER VEALE	'And when I heard this morbid nutter mutter "Oh my lost Lenore" / I tapped my beak against his door'
Rhyme 'Orange'	RON RUBIN	'Who says you can't rhyme 'Orange'?'
Grecian Urn	DESMOND SKINNER	Saves you reading the full length version...
Free Verse	V. E. COX	'Verse / Free of all rules / Of rhythm and rhyme...'
Limericks	Various	'There once was a bard from Hong Kong / Who thought limericks were too long.'
'Echo' Poem	NOEL PETTY	'We're having drinks on Sunday. Can you come?' / 'Um...'
The Sibilant Soldier	BILL GREENWELL	'If I should snuff it, sensitively say: / That there's some silent top-soil overseas...'
Deflated Couplets	Various	'Where are you going with your lovelocks flowing, / And your skirt hitched up and your knickers showing?'
Plutonian Poem	Stanley G. Weinbaum	From his book "The New Adam" - inspired me to compose "Charon's Lament"
Bricklayer's Song	trad. arr The Corries	Gerard Hoffnung's famous Oxford Union speech in a poetic stylee. (This story is actually about 100 years old!)
Fontinental Version	GRYPHON	This must be the most bizarre set of song lyrics ever conceived - from the 1974 album "Raindance" by Gryphon. The music is superb - highly recommended, but these lyrics are obscure to the point of obfuscation. If anyone knows what all this means, please tell me!
Ode to Spot	DATA (Star Trek)	If you're a fan of Star Trek, you should know this one - Data's ode to his pet cat from the "Next Generation" episode "Schisms". I don't know who the actual writer is (The episode was written by Jean Lousie Matthias & Ron Wilkerson, but the writer of the poem doesn't get a credit.)
From "The Forest"	unknown	This charming uncredited poem appears on the sleeve of David Byrne's CD "The Forest" and appears to be written by someone having great difficulty with the English language (and the workings of a typewriter). I suspect David Byrne wrote it himself, but I don't care, I still think it is brilliant.
The Wild Bull	unknown	I found this one on the cover of the album "The Wild Bull" by Morton Subotnick - a ground-breaking electronic work composed in 1967. This poem which inspired the music is approximately 3,700 years old, and is possibly the oldest verse in existence. Incredibly ancient and tragically beautiful.
Hiroshima	Julia Hetherington	This one was written by my friend Peter's sister Julia for our school magazine in 1970. I believe it won an award at the time, and it's easy to see why. It chokes me up every time I read it. So we finally killed the dawn.
A-Z of the Piano	Nicholas Lumsden	This was published in Classic CD magazine in January 1991 and reproduced here with permission from the author. I could suggest a replacement for the fifth line: "E is for Elwood, who everyone spurns"...

POETRY BY THE MENSA POETRY GROUP - click here

And for some really BAD poetry - go here - but don't say I didn't warn you!
(Bad poetry section courtesy of www.nylon.net)