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Famous Dodger Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Service, Robert William
...r,
He passed his days as peacefully
 As friar in a cloister.

So fellow sinners, should you choose
 Of doom to be a dodger,
At eighty be a bland recluse
 Like this serene old codger,
Who turned his back on fear and fret,
 And died nigh eighty-seven . . .
His name was--Robert Service: let
 Us hope he went to Heaven...Read more of this...



by Brautigan, Richard
...g lower market on the way to work

saw the pictures of the FBI's TEN MOST WANTED MEN in

the window of a store. the dodger under one of the pictures

was folded under at both sides and you couldn't read all of it.

the picture showed a nice, clean-cut-looking guy with freckles

and curly (red?) hair





 WANTED FOR:

 RICHARD LAWRENCE MARQUETTE

 Aliases: Richard Lawrence Marquette, Richard

 Lourence Marquette

 Description:

26, born Dec. 12, 1934, Portland, Or...Read more of this...

by Service, Robert William
...cking old fellow
With a visage ripe and mellow
 As you see.

Just a twinkle-eyed old codger,
And of death as artful dodger,
 Such I am;
I defy the Doc's advising
And I don't for sermonising
 Care a damn.
Though Bill Shakespeare had in his dome
Both - I'd rather wit than wisdom
 For my choice;
In the glug glug of the bottle,
As I tip it down my throttle,
 I rejoice.

Paint me neither sour not soulful,
For I would not have folks doleful
 When I go;
So if to my shade...Read more of this...

by Pinsky, Robert
...os.

The emerald
Theater, the night.
Another time,
I devised a left-hander
Even more gifted
Than Whitey Ford: A Dodger.
People were amazed by him.
Once, when he was young,
He refused to pitch on Yom Kippur....Read more of this...

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