Famous Foreman Poems by Famous Poets

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

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At the Cedars

...evil had clinched them below.

We worked three days -- not a budge,
'She's as tight as a wedge, on the ledge,'
Says our foreman;
'Mon Dieu! boys, look here,
We must get this thing clear.'
He cursed at the men
And we went for it then;
With our cant-dogs arow,
We just gave he-yo-ho;
When she gave a big shove
From above.

The gang yelled and tore
For the shore,
The logs gave a grind
Like a wolf's jaws behind,
And as quick as a flash,
With a shove and a crash,
They were down in a...Read more of this...
by Scott, Duncan Campbell


Bridge Over The Aire Book 5

..., trailing down

Knowsthorpe for broken branches, past the water

Works, where Kevin Keogh climbed the fence:

When the foreman saw his torn outsize overcoat

He slapped his head until it rang, “Keep out

You fucking Irish ****!” That was before I’d

Learned to answer back so when Ma Moorhouse

Clumped out in her calipers to tell us off

I asked, “By what law should we leave?”





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And when she bellowed back, “Our Pete’ll do you

When ‘e’s ‘ome!” Jim, not to be outdone,...Read more of this...
by Tebb, Barry

Dance, Thumbkin Dance

...b alone movingThumbkin, he can dance alone.      (the thumb alone movingDance, Foreman, dance,      (the first finger movingDance, ye merrymen, everyone.      (all movingBut Foreman, he can dance alone,      (the first finger movingForeman, he can dance alone.      (the first finger movingD...Read more of this...
by Goose, Mother

Docker

...n collar he tolerates 
Smiles all round his sleek pint of porter. 

Mosaic imperatives bang home like rivets; 
God is a foreman with certain definite views 
Who orders life in shifts of work and leisure. 
A factory horn will blare the Resurrection. 

He sits, strong and blunt as a Celtic cross, 
Clearly used to silence and an armchair: 
Tonight the wife and children will be quiet 
At slammed door and smoker's cough in the hall....Read more of this...
by Heaney, Seamus

Gertrude of Wyoming

...s and floods, and ambush'd men,
I bore thee like the quiver on my back,
Fleet as the whirlwind hurries on the rack;
Nor foreman then, nor cougar's crouch I fear'd,
For I was strong as mountain cataract:
And dost thou not remember how we cheer'd,
Upon the last hill-top, when white men's huts appear'd?


Then welcome be my death-song, and my death
Since I have seen thee, and again embrac'd."
And longer had he spent his toil-worn breath;
But with affectionate and eager haste,
Wa...Read more of this...
by Campbell, Thomas


John Hancock Otis

...and beginning life
As a water carrier to the section hands,
Then becoming a section hand when he was grown,
Afterwards foreman of the gang, until he rose
To the superintendency of the railroad,
Living in Chicago,
Was a veritable slave driver,
Grinding the faces of labor,
And a bitter enemy of democracy.
And I say to you, Spoon River,
And to you, O republic,
Beware of the man who rises to power
From one suspender....Read more of this...
by Masters, Edgar Lee

Last night I had a dream

....
I’m so mean, I make medicine sick.
I’m so fast, man,
I can run through a hurricane and don't get wet.
When George Foreman meets me,
He’ll pay his debt.
I can drown the drink of water, and kill a dead tree.
Wait till you see Muhammad Ali....Read more of this...
by Ali, Muhammad

Roy Butler

...it does a case of rape
It would be the greatest court in the world.
A jury, of neighbors mostly, with "Butch" Weldy
As foreman, found me guilty in ten minutes
And two ballots on a case like this:
Richard Bandle and I had trouble over a fence,
And my wife and Mrs. Bandle quarreled
As to whether Ipava was a finer town than Table Grove.
I awoke one morning with the love of God
Brimming over my heart, so I went to see Richard
To settle the fence in the spirit of Jesus Christ.
I ...Read more of this...
by Masters, Edgar Lee

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