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Famous Bogus Poems by Famous Poets

These are examples of famous Bogus poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous bogus poems. These examples illustrate what a famous bogus poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).

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by Paterson, Andrew Barton
...the hapless pedagogue, 
And first involve him in a mental fog 
Then "have" him with the same old tale again. 

The "bogus" fight that brought the sergeant down 
To that dark corner by the old brick wall, 
Where mimic combat and theatric brawl 
Made noise enough to terrify the town. 

But on wet days the fray was genuine, 
When small boys pushed each other in the mud 
And fought in silence till thin streams of blood 
Their dirty faces would incarnadine. 

The footb...Read more of this...



by Raleigh, Sir Walter
..., the Otia Merseiana, 
Edited by learned Mister Sampson, 
And supported by Professor Woodward, 
Is financed by numerous Bogus Meetings
Hastily convened by Kuno Meyer 
To impose upon the Man of Business. 

All in vain! The accomplished Man of Business 
Disapproves of Otia Merseiana, 
Turns his back on Doctor Kuno Meyer; 
Cannot be enticed by Mister Sampson, 
To be present at the Bogus Meetings, 
Though attended by Professor Woodward. 

Little cares the staid Professor ...Read more of this...

by Betjeman, John
...ong from the radio, 
It's not their fault they often go 
To Maidenhead 

And talk of sport and makes of cars
In various bogus-Tudor bars 
And daren't look up and see the stars
But belch instead. 

In labour-saving homes, with care
Their wives frizz out peroxide hair
And dry it in synthetic air
And paint their nails. 

Come, friendly bombs and fall on Slough
To get it ready for the plough.
The cabbages are coming now;
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by Brooks, Gwendolyn
...e - all real
walks our prime registered reproach and seal.
Our successful moral.
The good man.

Watches our bogus roses, our rank wreath, our
love's unreliable cement, the gray
jubilees of our demondom.
Coherent
Counsel! Good man.
Require of us our terribly excluded blue.
Constrain, repair a ripped, revolted land.
Put hand in hand land over.
Reprove
the abler droughts and manias of the day
and a felicity entreat.
Love.
Complete
your ple...Read more of this...

by Lehman, David
...t was in it for her?
It took him all this time to figure it out.
The barroom boast, "I never had to pay for it,"
Is bogus if marriage is a religious institution
On the operating model of a nineteenth-century factory.
On the other hand, women's lot was no worse then
Than it is now. The division of labor made sense
In theories developed by college boys in jeans
Who grasped the logic their fathers had used
To seduce women and deceive themselves.
The pattern repea...Read more of this...



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