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Famous Eliminate Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Lehman, David
...s life 
when he thinks: I have never had a single 
original thought in my life 
including this one & therefore I shall 
eliminate all ideas from my poems 
which shall consist of cats, rice, rain 
baseball cards, fire escapes, hanging plants 
red brick houses where I shall give up booze 
and organized religion even if it means 
despair is a logical possibility that can't 
be disproved I shall concentrate on the five 
senses and what they half perceive and half 
create, the gre...Read more of this...



by Browning, Robert
...set to happen by the palace-clock 
According to the clouds or dinner-time. 
I hear you recommend, I might at least 
Eliminate, decrassify my faith 
Since I adopt it; keeping what I must 
And leaving what I can--such points as this. 
I won't--that is, I can't throw one away. 
Supposing there's no truth in what I hold 
About the need of trial to man's faith, 
Still, when you bid me purify the same, 
To such a process I discern no end. 


Clearing off one excresc...Read more of this...

by Nash, Ogden
...ou visit
And between us all
A rapport may fall
Ecstatically exquisite.
One simple thought, if you have it pat,
Will eliminate the coroner:
You may be a native in your habitat,
But to foreigners you’re just a foreigner....Read more of this...

by Fu, Du
...ither and fall Pumpkin leaf become sparse Lucky bear fruit white flower finish Better take leave green vine eliminate Autumn insect sound not go Dusk sparrow think what Cold thing now lie waste Human life also have beginning  The sticks I tied already wither and fall, The pumpkin leaves are getting sparse and thin. It's lucky that the white flowers fully grew, You have to help the green vines fade awa...Read more of this...

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