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Brenda Roberts offers her opinion and a sample of bad poetry. The worst poetry I have ever EVER been forced to read was by a group of children in the first contest that Texoma Poetry Society sponsored for the Poetry in Schools program from Poetry Society of Texas. The fact that it was awful I believe was because instead of using this poetic form to teach how to relate subjects and moving on to share better forms or encourage free thought, this teacher put the formula on the board and told each student in the class to follow it exactly. I would never use one of their poems as an example but I will write one of my own using that form. That is about the least poetic thing I have ever written other than a grocery list.