Famous Flam Poems by Famous Poets

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

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The Everlasting Mercy

...luck was gone; 
And looking round I felt a spite 
At all who'd come to see me fight; 
The five and forty human faces 
Inflamed by drink and going to races, 
Faces of men who'd never been 
Merry or true or live or clean; 
Who'd never felt the boxer's trim 
Of brain divinely knit to limb, 
Nor felt the whole live body go 
One tingling health from top to toe; 
Nor took a punch nor given a swing, 
But just soaked dead round the ring 
Until their brains and bloods were foul 
Enoug...Read more of this...
by Masefield, John


The Singing School

...hink I’d want to shout, “Hurray, hurray,

Every day’s Poetry Day!” but I don’t and you don’t either-

You know its flim-flam on the ether, grants for Jack-the-lads

Of both sexes, poets who’ve never been seen in a little magazine

Then gone on to win the Oopla Prize and made baroque architecture

The subject of an O.U. lecture.



Seventy five pounds for a seminar on sensitivity in verse;

A hundred and fifty for an infinitely worse whole weekend of

‘Steps towards a personal...Read more of this...
by Tebb, Barry

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