I love history, so I search out things like this. This information is copied from Google search: The longest poem in the world is the ancient Indian epic, the Mahabharata. Containing roughly 1.8 million words and 200,000 verses, it is about ten times longer than the Iliad and the Odyssey combined. It was written over centuries and remains a monumental feat of storytelling. Chime in if you already knew. I didn't.