To honour this great day, here are some fun facts about poems.
Worlds longest poem
Mahābhārata
Though the definition of a long poem is vague and broad, the genre includes some of the most important poetry ever written. With more than 220000 (100000 shloka or couplets) verses and about 1.8 million words in total, the Mahābhārata is the longest epic poem in the world.
Worlds longest poem in English
The longest single-author poem in English is reputed to be My Blah Story by US writer Nigel Tomm, which stretches to 23,161 lines. The early English epic poem Beowulf comes to just over 3,000 lines, while Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner runs to 625 lines. Aug 21, 2009
Worlds shortest poem
Saroyan’s four-legged “m” has been cited in the Guinness Book of Records as the world’s shortest poem. The meaning of it has been subject to discussion. Some have called it: “a closeup of an alphabet being born” – Bob Grumman. Jul 2, 2013
Worlds oldest poem
Epic of Gilgamesh
First lines of oldest epic poem found. THE BEGINNING of the world’s first truly great work of literature – the 4,000-year-old Mesopotamian Epic of Gilgamesh, the poem on which the story of Noah and the Flood was probably based – has been discovered in a British Museum storeroom.Nov 16, 1998
The Man In The Pink Hat 