Famous Happy Birthday Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Happy Birthday poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous happy birthday poems. These examples illustrate what a famous happy birthday poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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by
Service, Robert William
...ed and silver-haired,
Let me with laughter make the hearth gay,
So by the gods I may be spared
Each year to hear: "Pop, Happy Birthday."...Read more of this...
by
Hammad, Suheir
...usp
of libra tail
tips the scales
tonight it is raining in
the tradition of my parents
wanted a daughter not a writer
happy birthday poet
who loves you baby
the way your mama did
under her breast the way your
father did under his breath
leaves and leaving have known
my name intimately
i harvest pumpkins
to offer the river eat
buttered phoenix meat
to celebrate a new year
new cipher for my belly
i got a new name
secret nobody knows
the cold can't call me
leaving won't know
...Read more of this...
by
Gregory, Rg
...kind to sweet matthew and let that deep sun shine
that's been nuzzling inside you in its young-boy shell
and we wish a happy birthday to the ten-boy
to the video-games and freaky-foresters'-den-boy
to the boy who takes pity on his dad's bald head
whose laziness is legion - seasoned with sharp wit
a boy who's perfect when he's fast asleep in bed
and awake not quite an angel but at least well-fed...Read more of this...
by
Gregory, Rg
...ldn't eat young stephanie
jiminy jiminy
oh no - we'd be too scared to even say boo
gemini gemini
so why don't we wish happy birthday to stephanie
jiminy jiminy
then straight in the water before she rings up the zoo
gemini gemini
don't be so daft - she likes creatures does stephanie
jiminy jiminy
ok - but no tears - or she'll raise hullaballoo
and the two old lazy crocodiles who couldn't hurt a fly
sing happy birthday to stephanie as she passes them by...Read more of this...
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