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Famous Dirtying Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...artery of my soul has been severed 
and soul is spurting out upon them, 
bleeding on them, 
messing up their clothes, 
dirtying their shoes. 
And God is filling me, 
though there are times of doubt 
as hollow as the Grand Canyon, 
still God is filling me. 
He is giving me the thoughts of dogs, 
the spider in its intricate web, 
the sun 
in all its amazement, 
and a slain ram 
that is the glory, 
the mystery of great cost, 
and my heart, 
which is very big, 
I promise it is v...Read more of this...
by Sexton, Anne



...hung off her
shrieking their simple urgency like gulls.
She's supposed to pay for each of them
and the privilege of not dirtying the corporate floor.
Sometimes a woman in a uniform's on duty
black or whatever the prevailing bottom is
getting thirty cents an hour to make sure
no woman sneaks her full bladder under a door.
Most blatantly you shout that waste of resources
for the greatest good of the smallest number
where twenty pay toilets line up glinty clean
and at the end of...Read more of this...
by Piercy, Marge

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