Famous Format Poems by Famous Poets

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

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16-bit Intel 8088 chip

by Charles Bukowski
 with an Apple Macintosh
you can't run Radio Shack programs
in its disc drive.
nor can a Commodore 64
drive read a file
you have created on an
IBM Personal Computer.
both Kaypro and Osborne computers use
the CP/M operating system
but can't read each other's
handwriting
for they format (write
on) discs in different
ways.
the Tandy 2000 runs MS-DOS but
can't use most programs produced for
the IBM Personal Computer
unless certain
bits and bytes...Read more of this...

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