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Famous Artichokes Poems by Famous Poets

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Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry
...n my imagination 
by the store detective. 
We strode down the open corridors together in 
our solitary fancy tasting artichokes, possessing every 
frozen delicacy, and never passing the cashier. 
Where are we going, Walt Whitman? The doors 
close in an hour. Which way does your beard point 
tonight? 
(I touch your book and dream of our odyssey in the 
supermarket and feel absurd.) 
Will we walk all night through solitary streets? 
The trees add shade to shade, ligh...Read more of this...
by Ginsberg, Allen



...r was it so military 
Like on parade. 
The men 
In their white shirts 
Among the vegetables 
Were 
The Marshals 
Of the artichokes 
Lines in close order 
Command voices, 
And the bang 
Of a falling box. 

But 
Then 
Maria 
Comes 
With her basket 
She chooses 
An artichoke, 
She's not afraid of it. 
She examines it, she observes it 
Up against the light like it was an egg, 
She buys it, 
She mixes it up 
In her handbag 
With a pair of shoes 
With a cabbage head and a 
Bottle 
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by Neruda, Pablo
...nce the garden through, 
With this for me and that for you,” 
Said Oliver.—“Divine!” said Oakes, 
“And I, while I raise artichokes, 
Will do what I was born to do.” 

“But this is not the soil, you know,” 
Said Oliver, “to make them grow: 
The parent of us, who is dead, 
Compassionately shook his head 
Once on a time and told me so.”

“I hear you, gentle Oliver,” 
Said Oakes, “and in your character 
I find as fair a thing indeed 
As ever bloomed and ran to seed 
Since Adam wa...Read more of this...
by Robinson, Edwin Arlington

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Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry