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Famous Crunches Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...eep are grazing in the
red field under the rainbow-billed and pea-green birds. Hardboileds, toffee, fudge and allsorts, crunches,
cracknels, humbugs, glaciers, marzipan, and butterwelsh for the Welsh. And troops of bright tin soldiers who,
if they could not fight, could always run. And Snakes-and-Families and Happy Ladders. And Easy Hobbi-Games for
Little Engineers, complete with instructions. Oh, easy for Leonardo! And a whistle to make the dogs bark to
wake up the old man n...Read more of this...
by Thomas, Dylan



...stripped willow-wand.
Round and round turn the hoops,
Their diamond whiteness cleaving the yellow sunshine.
The gravel crunches and squeaks beneath them,
And a large pebble springs them into the air
To go whirling for a foot or two
Before they touch the earth again
In a series of little jumps.
Spring, Hoops!
Spit out a shower of blue and white brightness.
The little criss-cross shoes twinkle behind you,
The pink and blue sashes flutter like flags,
The hoop-sticks are ready t...Read more of this...
by Lowell, Amy
...s’ wide mouths I cram 
With army biscuit smeared with ration jam; 

And sleep lurks in the luscious plum and apple. 
He crunches, swallows, stiffens, seems to grapple
With the all-powerful poppy … then a snore, 
A crash; the beast blocks up the corridor 
With monstrous hairy carcase, red and dun— 
Too late! for I’ve sped through. 
O Life! O Sun!...Read more of this...
by Graves, Robert

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