Famous Cal Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Cal poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous cal poems. These examples illustrate what a famous cal poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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Tebb, Barry
...and me and everything for free.
7
South Leeds was poverty and poetry, cellars
Beneath, mysterious and magical stone step
Paths to paradise, concrete floors with earth
Showing moon craters through, stone breasts
Of an Indian goddess, a rusty cobbler’s last
And green wire-mesh keeping safe.
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Every other week coalmen with grimed faces
And flashing eye-whites heaved half-hundred
Weight sacks, the grate’s chains loosened
Like a raised portcullis, ...Read more of this...
by
Smith, Stevie
...I care for the pub lub lights
And the friends I love so well-
There's more in the way I feel about Freddy
Than a friend cal tell.
But all the same I don't care much for his meelyoo I mean
I don't anheimate mich in the ha-ha well-off suburban scene
Where men are few and hearts go tumptytum
In the tennis club lub lights poet very dumb.
But there never was a boy like Freddy
For a haystack's ivory tower of bliss
Where speaking sub specie humanitatis
Freddy and me can kiss...Read more of this...
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