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Famous Dungarees Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Lindley, John
...a tip.

I’m the bent, white-whiskered ol’ Black Joe 
with the stick and staggered walk.
I’m the barefoot boy in dungarees
with a stammer in my talk.

I’m the storytelling Mr. Bones
with a jangling tambourine.
I’m the North’s excuse for novelty
and the South’s deleted scene.

I’m the one who takes his lunch break
with the extras and the grips.
I’m the funny liquorice coils of hair
and the funny looking lips.

I’m the white wide eyes and pearly t...Read more of this...



by McHugh, Heather
...ne.
Instead we get the sheer
opacity of things: an accident
of incident, a tracery of history: the dung

inside the dungarees, the jock strap for a codpiece, and
the ruined patches bordering the lip. One boot (high-heeled) could make
Sorrento sorry, Capri corny, even little Italy
a little ill. Low-cased, a lover looks

one over--eggs without ease, semen without oars--
and there, on board, tricked out in fur and fin,
the landlubber who wound up captain. Where's...Read more of this...

by Ginsberg, Allen
...and so took ship 
 to Africa, 
who disappeared into the volcanoes of Mexico leaving 
 behind nothing but the shadow of dungarees 
 and the lava and ash of poetry scattered in fire 
 place Chicago, 
who reappeared on the West Coast investigating the 
 F.B.I. in beards and shorts with big pacifist 
 eyes sexy in their dark skin passing out incom- 
 prehensible leaflets, 
who burned cigarette holes in their arms protesting 
 the narcotic tobacco haze of Capitalism, ...Read more of this...

by O'Hara, Frank
...>

He is a man like us erect
in the cold dark night. Silence
handles his guitar as clumsily

as a wet pair of dungarees.
The grass if full of snakespit.
He alone is hot admist the stars.

If no one is racing towards him
down intriguingly hung stairways 
towards the firm lamp of his thighs 

we are indeed in trouble sprawling
feet upwards to the sun our faces
growing smaller in the colossal dark....Read more of this...

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