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Famous Clandestine Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...illed Long Cheng's bars
In Xieng Quang province on the Plain of Jars

It started in secret they were fighting yesterday
Clandestine secret army of the CIA

All through the Sixties the Dope flew free
Thru Tan Son Nhut Saigon to Marshal Ky
Air America followed through
Transporting confiture for President Thieu

All these Dealers were decades and yesterday
The Indochinese mob of the U.S. CIA

Operation Haylift Offisir Wm. Colby
Saw Marshal Ky fly opium Mr. Mustard told me
Indoch...Read more of this...
by Ginsberg, Allen



...type:
"This is I, the giant."
Thereby also living the life of a sneak-thief,
Poisoned with the anonymous words
Of your clandestine soul.
To scratch dirt over scandal for money,
And exhume it to the winds for revenge,
Or to sell papers,
Crushing reputations, or bodies, if need be,
To win at any cost, save your own life.
To glory in demoniac power, ditching civilization,
As a paranoiac boy puts a log on the track
And derails the express train.
To be an editor, as I was.
Then t...Read more of this...
by Masters, Edgar Lee
...really sang for was not there
 only, 
Nor for his mate, nor himself only, nor all sent back by the echoes; 
But subtle, clandestine, away beyond,
A charge transmitted, and gift occult, for those being born. 

13Democracy! 
Near at hand to you a throat is now inflating itself and joyfully singing. 

Ma femme! 
For the brood beyond us and of us,
For those who belong here, and those to come, 
I, exultant, to be ready for them, will now shake out carols stronger and
 haughtier th...Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt
...transparent tubes and gas
in Düsseldorf are blue and flash out KRUPP.
Arms are hoisted for the British ruling class
and clandestine, genteel aggro keeps them up.

And there's HARRISON on some Leeds building sites
I've taken in fun as blazoning my name,
which I've also seen on books, in Broadway lights,
so why can't skins with spraycans do the same?

But why inscribe these graves with **** and ****?
Why choose neglected tombstones to disfigure?
This pitman's of last century da...Read more of this...
by Harrison, Tony

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