Famous Deported Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Part 8 of Trout Fishing in America

...
 company from my fingers. My fingers looked just great, rigl:

 there on my hands.

 I cleaned out her rock garden and deported snakes when-

 ever I found them on her place. She told me to kill them, but

 I couldn't see any percentage in wasting a gartersnake. But

 I had to get rid of the things because she always promisedme

 she'd have a heart attack if she ever stepped on one of them.

 So I'd catch them and deport them to a yard across the

 street, where nine old lad...Read more of this...
by Brautigan, Richard


September Song

...born 19.6.32 - deported 24.9.42

Undesirable you may have been, untouchable
you were not. Not forgotten
or passed over at the proper time.

As estimated, you died. Things marched,
sufficient, to that end.
Just so much Zyklon and leather, patented
terror, so many routine cries.

(I have made
an elegy for myself it
is true)

September fattens on vines. Roses
flake from the w...Read more of this...
by Hill, Geoffrey

The Lung Fish

...-- 
He called "those chuck-and-chance-it chaps". 
And then the Fates that sometimes play 
A joke on such as me and you 
Deported him up Queensland way 
To act as a station jackaroo. 
The boundary rider said, said he, 
"You fish dry fly? Well, so do we. 

"These barramundi are the blokes 
To give you all the sport you need: 
For when the big lagoons and soaks 
Are dried right down to mud and weed 
They don't sit there and raise a roar, 
They pack their traps and come ashore. 
...Read more of this...
by Paterson, Andrew Barton

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