Well, Jeri, you might have thought that a thread starting "worst poets" would end up being a bit of light-hearted whimsy. After all, there's plenty of scope. Instead, one person here has sabotaged it, via posturing as an ill-tempered and fairly rude control freak, and it happens to be the thread's originator. Please target your criticisms of us slightly more accurately.

From a poem called The Thorn:

"...You see a little muddy pond
Of water, never dry;
I've measured it from side to side:
'Tis three feet long, and two feet wide."

That was written by William Wordsworth. No, really...