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Famous Clothespins Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...new, as you would too, 
that he'd be laid off 
for not being braver 
and it would do no good 
to show how he had taken 
clothespins and cardboard 
and made each step safe. 
It would do no good 
to have been one of the few 
that climbed higher and higher 
even in time of war, 
for now there would be the poor 
asking for their share, 
and hurt men in uniforms, 
and no one to believe 
that heaven was really here....Read more of this...
by Levine, Philip



...d hungered at
a marriage feast until the angel of hell
turned me into the punisher, the acrobat.

My bones are loose as clothespins,
as abandoned as dolls in a toy shop
and my heart, old hunger motor, with its sins
revved up like an engine that would not stop.

And now I spend all day taking care
of my body, that baby. Its cargo is scarred.
I anoint the bedpan. I brush my hair,
waiting in the pain machine for my bones to get hard,

for the soft, soft bones that were laid apar...Read more of this...
by Sexton, Anne

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