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Famous Facility Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Matthew, John
...w it’s hard; you need your money,
But couldn’t you put the money —
You spend on spirits and tobacco,
To use that public facility on the street corner?

Is it communion with nature you seek?
Or the pleasure of shocking,
Young children, and pubescent girls?
Your revenge, your wretchedness!

If it’s your laziness, unforgivable indolence,
And reluctance to pay Rupee two, 
And wash with dignity in that public facility,
Then bury your face, wretch, and die in shame....Read more of this...



by Service, Robert William
...So easy 'tis to make a rhyme,
That did the world but know it,
Your coachman might Parnassus climb,
Your butler be a poet.

Then, oh, how charming it would be
If, when in haste hysteric
You called the page, you learned that he
Was grappling with a lyric.

Or else what rapture it would yield,
When cook sent up the salad,
To find within its depths con...Read more of this...

by Montgomery, Lucy Maud
...ized because of its rarity. 

Geniuses are people who dash of weird, wild, 
incomprehensible poems with astonishing facility, 
and get booming drunk and sleep in the gutter. 

Genius elevates its possessor to ineffable spheres 
far above the vulgar world and fills his soul 
with regal contempt for the gross and sordid things of earth. 

It is probably on account of this 
that people who have genius 
do not pay their board, as a general thing. 

Geniuses are ve...Read more of this...

by Ginsberg, Allen
...this text is set in Boulder,
 Colorado before front range of Rocky Mountains
twelve miles north of Rocky Flats Nuclear Facility in 
 United States of North America, Western Hemi-
 sphere
of planet Earth six months and fourteen days around
 our Solar System in a Spiral Galaxy
the local year after Dominion of the last God nineteen 
 hundred seventy eight
Completed as yellow hazed dawn clouds brighten East,
 Denver city white below
Blue sky transparent rising empty deep & spaci...Read more of this...

by Robinson, Edwin Arlington
...rent earth 
To break with inward rot. I say all this, 
And I concede, in honor of your silence,
A waste of innocent facility 
In tints of other colors than are mine. 
I cannot paint with words, but there’s a time 
For most of us when words are all we have 
To serve our stricken souls. And here you say,
“Be careful, or you may commit your soul 
Soon to the very devil of your denial.” 
I might have wagered on you to say that, 
Knowing that I believe in you too s...Read more of this...



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