Famous Cigarette Paper Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

...No matter what life you lead
the virgin is a lovely number:
cheeks as fragile as cigarette paper,
arms and legs made of Limoges,
lips like Vin Du Rhône,
rolling her china-blue doll eyes
open and shut.
Open to say, 
Good Day Mama,
and shut for the thrust
of the unicorn.
She is unsoiled.
She is as white as a bonefish.

Once there was a lovely virgin
called Snow White.
Say she was thirteen.
Her stepmother,
a beauty in her own right,
though ...Read more of this...
by Sexton, Anne


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