Famous Figurines Poems by Famous Poets

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

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A Cloud in Trousers

...kiss rises to leap. 

Mamma! 
I cannot sing. 
In the heart¡¯s chapel the choir loft catches fire! 

The scorched figurines of words and numbers 
scurry from the skull 
like children from a flaming building. 
Thus fear, 
in its effort to grasp at the sky, 
lifted high 
the flaming arms of the Lusitania. 

Into the calm of the apartment 
where people quake, 
a hundred-eye blaze bursts from the docks. 
Moan 
into the centuries, 
if you can, a last scream: I¡¯...Read more of this...
by Mayakovsky, Vladimir


Again

...ats and their mournful expressions
Reclaiming the bedrooms they had in their teens,
Clean towels, warm comforter, glass figurines.

Downstairs in the kitchen the father and mother
Don’t say a word, but they look at each other
As down the hill comes Jill, comes Jack.
The children are back. The children are back....Read more of this...
by Taylor, Marilyn L

The Doctor Will Return

...eem to weep more now that heat
Spreads everywhere we look.
It says here none of us is well.

The warty spottings on the figurines
Are nothing you would care to claim.
You seem to weep more since the magazines
Began revivals on the Dundas book.
It says here you were most to blame.

But though I cannot believe that this is so,
I mark the doctor as a decent sort.
I mix your medicine and go
Downstairs to leave instructions for the cook.
It says here time is getting short.

That I...Read more of this...
by Kees, Weldon

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