Famous Cashed Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Crossing the Frontier

...d both their mothers, simply weeping floods, 
Her head-mistress, his boss, the parish priest, 
And the bank manager who cashed their cheques; 
The man who sold him his first rubber-goods; 
Dog Fido, from whose love-life, shameless beast, 
She first observed the basic facts of sex. 

They looked as though they had stood there for hours; 
For years - perhaps for ever. In the trees 
Two furtive birds stopped courting and flew off; 
While in the grass beside the road the flowers ...Read more of this...
by Hope, Alec Derwent (A D)


Little Ballads Of Timely Warning; III: On Laziness And Its Resultant Ills

...ll gone!” they said, and then Starvation,
(Who is not lazy) laid Nit low.

Nit trembled, gasped, and, as the phrase is,
Cashed in his checks, gave up his breath,
And turned his toes up to the daisies—
His laziness had caused his death!

 Warning

Spelling reformers should make haste.
If each reformer wants a taste....Read more of this...
by Butler, Ellis Parker

Once

...ttes,
damp matches, and an inaccurate map
of Manhattan in my head, and the change
from the one $20 traveler's check
I'd cashed in a dairy restaurant where
the amazed owner actually proclaimed
to the busy heads, "They got Jews in Detroit!"

You can forgive the night. No one else was dumb
enough to be out. Sure, it was Easter.
Was I expecting crocus and lilac
to burst from the pavement and sweeten
the air the way they did in Michigan once
upon a time? This wouldn't be so bad
if...Read more of this...
by Levine, Philip

The Maoris Wool

...w, 
A mighty clip of wool went Home from Rooti-iti-au. 

It was the Bold Bank Manager who drew a heavy cheque; 
Rerenga cashed it thoughtfully, then clasped him round the neck; 
A hug from him was not at all a thing you'd call a lark -- 
You see he lived on mutton-birds and dried remains of shark -- 
But still it showed his gratitude; and, as he pouched the pelf, 
"I'll haka for you, sir," he said, "in honour of yourself!" 
The haka is a striking dance -- the sort they don't ...Read more of this...
by Paterson, Andrew Barton

The Right to Grief

...the pity of Death refusing any check on the bank
Which the millionaire might order his secretary to
scratch off
And get cashed.

Very well,
You for your grief and I for mine.
Let me have a sorrow my own if I want to.

I shall cry over the dead child of a stockyards hunky.
His job is sweeping blood off the floor.
He gets a dollar seventy cents a day when he works
And it's many tubs of blood he shoves out with a broom
day by day.

Now his three year old daughter
Is in a white c...Read more of this...
by Sandburg, Carl


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