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Famous Carton Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Levine, Philip
...ing the high branches 
of the sycamores. She thinks 
of her own kitchen, the dishwasher 
yawning open, the dripping carton 
left on the counter. Her boys 
have gone off steaming like sheep. 
Were they here last night? 
Where do they live? she wonders, 
with whom? Are they home? 
In her yard the young plum tree, 
barely taller than she, drops 
its first yellow leaf. She listens 
and hears nothing. If she rose 
and walked barefoot on the wood floor 
no one w...Read more of this...



by Gluck, Louise
...
In the dream, she's weeping, the bus she's on
Is moving away. With one hand
She's waving; the other strokes
An egg carton full of babies.

The dream doesn't rescue the maiden....Read more of this...

by Levine, Philip
...> It is now 
less than five hours until mid-day 
when nothing will be left in doubt, 
each scrap of news, each banished carton, 
each forgotten letter, its ink bled of lies, 
will stare back at the one eye that sees 
it all and never blinks. But for now 
there is water settling in a clean glass 
on the shelf beside the razor, the slap 
of bare feet on the floor above. Soon 
the scent of rivers borne across roof 
after roof by winds without names, 
the aroma of opened ...Read more of this...

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