Famous Goddamned Poems by Famous Poets

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

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A Red Wheelbarrow

...Rest and look at this goddamned wheelbarrow. Whatever
It is. Dogs and crocodiles, sunlamps. Not
For their significance.
For their significant. For being human
The signs escape you. You, who aren't very bright
Are a signal for them. Not,
I mean, the dogs and crocodiles, sunlamps. Not
Their significance....Read more of this...
by Spicer, Jack


Dream Song 22: Of 1826

...does know better but.
I am the king of the pool.
I am so wise I had my mouth sewn shut.
I am a government official & a goddamned fool.
I am a lady who takes jokes.

I am the enemy of the mind.
I am the auto salesman and lóve you.
I am a teenage cancer, with a plan.
I am the blackt-out man.
I am the woman powerful as a zoo.
I am two eyes screwed to my set, whose blind-”

It is the Fourth of July.
Collect: while the dying man,
forgone by you creator, who forgives,
is gasping ...Read more of this...
by Berryman, John

Hot

.... .
I locked the doors, pulled the key and ran down to the 
station. . .
I threw the keys down. . .signed out. . .
your goddamned truck is stalled at the signal,
I shouted,
Pico and Western. . .
. . .I ran down the hall,put the key into the door,
opened it. . .her drinking glass was there, and a note: 

 sun of a *****:
 I waited until 5 after ate
 you don't love me
 you sun of a *****
 somebody will love me
 I been wateing all day

 Miriam

I poured a drink and let the water...Read more of this...
by Bukowski, Charles

Stalk Me

...Hurry, I'm waiting
I'm pleading
Just come on and do it
Chew me choke me and stalk me
That'll teach me to write all that goddamned poetry...Read more of this...
by Estep, Maggie

The Road

...k's New Yorker,
the poet driving his car to an orchard
outside the city where, for five dollars,
he fills a basket with goddamned apples....Read more of this...
by Jones, Richard


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