Famous Cheques Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Cheques poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous cheques poems. These examples illustrate what a famous cheques poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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Hope, Alec Derwent (A D)
...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
Kept...Read more of this...
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Gregory, Rg
...winning
find poems like mothballs in their drawers
sprinkle them with twinkling stardust
post them off with copperplate cheques
the judges wipe their arses on them
the money's gone to a super cause
everyone knows it's just a joke
who gets taken - the foolish and vain
if they're daft enough and such bad poets
more money than sense the best advice
is - keep it up grannies the cause
is noble and we'll take your cheque
again and again and again
it's the winners who fall in the ...Read more of this...
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Larkin, Philip
...do you let me lie here wastefully?
I am all you never had of goods and sex,
You could get them still by writing a few cheques.'
So I look at others, what they do with theirs:
They certainly don't keep it upstairs.
By now they've a second house and car and wife:
Clearly money has something to do with life
- In fact, they've a lot in common, if you enquire:
You can't put off being young until you retire,
And however you bank your screw, the money you save
Won't...Read more of this...
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Tebb, Barry
...die I will
Have only my love
To leave you.
You said I had written
No poems for you
And you had written
Only cheques.
I cannot go on loving
The empty air
No matter how many cheques
That air may bear.
I have a headache
And heartache
Remembering another love
Twenty years ago,
Living and loving and leaving
A city for a cottage
On the moors, the
Hyaline air, the silence
And the distant stars.
I am your poet
Officially or unofficially
You m...Read more of this...
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Lawson, Henry
...b and the blazing flat,
When the heat came down through each old felt hat
In the hell-born western drought.
The cheques we made and the shanty sprees,
The camps in the great blind scrub,
The long wet tramps when the plains were seas,
And the oracles worked in days like these
For rum and tobacco and grub.
Could I forget how we struck `the same
Old tale' in the nearer West,
When the first great test of our friendship came --
But -- well, there's little to p...Read more of this...
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Laurence Dunbar, Paul
...em 's teasing;
But health is better far than fame,
[Pg 123]Though cheques are pleasing.
I don't know what I did it for,—
This air 's a poppy.
I 'm sorry for my editor,—
He 'll get no copy!
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Lawson, Henry
...thought of the morrow;
Their way is not the old-world way--
They live to lend and borrow.
When shearing's done and cheques gone wrong,
They call it "time to slither"--
They saddle up and say "So-long!"
And ride the Lord knows whither.
And though he may be brown or black,
Or wrong man there, or right man,
The mate that's steadfast to his mates
They call that man a "white man!"
They tramp in mateship side by side--
The Protestant and Roman--
They call no biped lord o...Read more of this...
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