A Romanian website developer has created what he claims to be the longest poem in the world, by pairing up random rhyming Twitter updates
The work currently stretches to more than 364,000 verses and could in theory go on forever – or as long as users of the micro-blogging updates keep posting.
While many of the lines come out as garbled nonsense (“goodnight my lovely, and good luck with that!/Just hanging out with the dog and cat”) unworthy of a 1950s Beat poem, the juxtaposition of conflicting thoughts occasionally throws up some poignant rhymes.
For instance, one verse reads: “Open your heart and i’ll make you smile/give her an inch and she’ll take a mile”.
Telegraph (Thanks Eliza)
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ha ha, pretty clever!
Twitter lines of poetry have missing bits like an amputee.
Aww I would love to read that! I doubt any of my twitterings would have been included though – mine are all dead boring!
lOVELY!
Is there anywhere we can read it? Hang on- google…
http://www.longestpoemintheworld.com/
that was easy
Just off to read the poem – I may be some time
Well, I hope he doesn’t use a few lines I wrote which I myself put up on Twitter the other day……
Oh come with me to pastures new,
Your love for thee we’ll share,
Tomorrow will be our future true,
My fairest Lady Claire.
….I have copyright on that!
(Ok, I was incredibly bored at the time! lol)
LC x
I like the idea (reminds me of a game we used to play as kids … in which we made up stories by adding each time a new line to the story). The poem probably does not really make sense … too bad, a line in it could have been nce. Although .. there comes a point that everything becomes a copy of previously written lines I guess. Although .. who reads it completely? With no red line in it … and lots of nonsense lines … you log off before the last present line .. (or start there)
This vaguely reminds me of the scenario fo monkeys in a room with typewriters recreating the works of Shakespeare… Interesting…:-D May have to check out this poem sometime.
That thing with the monkeys and writing the works of Shakespeare? It actually happened once. It took about 3 million years, during which a lot of things happened to the monkeys. The ape that did the deed was called Shakespeare.
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