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Tue 11 Oct, 2005 08:43 am
I came across a poem about a story so horrible that it would make your hair stand on end, and many other dreadful reactions occur, and in fact so horrible that not one would actually tell it.
I would like to use this in a Halloween poetry reading (actually next Wednesday, October 19), but I accidentally threw away the printout. Now I can't get back to it! Unfortunately I don't know the title or the author (whose name was totally unfamiliar to me). I only remember the general gist, and I think it was in rhymed couplets, two couplets to a stanza, but I'm not even sure about that.
I was using Poetry Finder, a service accessible through the public library system, but there are so many possible keywords like "dreadful", "horrible","scariest", etc., that the keyword approach is nearly hopeless.
This would be a perfect addition to fill out my selections for the program.
Can anyone help?
Do you remember a line or two of the poem?
Poem about a horror story
No, dammit, I don't.
Poem about a horror story
No, dammit, I don't.
TK, can you remember the idea of the poem? Was it a narrative; lyric; prose poem?
If you want creepy and scary, try Edgar Allen Poe. Maybe one of his was the one you were looking at. But if not, they are still great stories.
Thanks everyone; I found the one I had in mind: "A Direful Story" by Berton Braley.
Love that graphic, Angelique! Where'd you find it?
From one of the links linkat posted right here on this thread.
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