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Famous Gone Fishing Poems by Famous Poets

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

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6)

Under watery here,
under breath, under duress,

understand a pain
has threaded a needle with a little man --

gone fishing. 
And fish appear.


7)

If small were big,
if then were now,

if here were there,
if find were found,

if mind were all there was,
would the animals still save us?


8)

A head was put
upon the shelf got took


by animal's hand and stuck
upon a vacant corpse

who, blurred, could nonetheless
not ever be the quietly standing bird it watched.


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by Creeley, Robert



...there was a little Trout Fishing

in America epitaph by Alonso Hagen. It said something like:



 "I've had it.

 I've gone fishing now for seven years

 and I haven't caught a single trout.

 I've lost every trout I ever hooked.

 They either jump off

 or twist off.

 or squirm off

 or break my leader

 or flop off

 or **** off.

 I have never even gotten my hands on a trout.

 For all its frustration,

 I believe it was an interesting experiment

 in total loss

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by Brautigan, Richard

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