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Famous Greasing Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Plath, Sylvia
...chid
Hanging its hanging garden in the air,

Devilish leopard!
Radiation turned it white
And killed it in an hour.

Greasing the bodies of adulterers
Like Hiroshima ash and eating in.
The sin. The sin.

Darling, all night
I have been flickering, off, on, off, on.
The sheets grow heavy as a lecher's kiss.

Three days. Three nights.
Lemon water, chicken
Water, water make me retch.

I am too pure for you or anyone.
Your body
Hurts me as th...Read more of this...



by Clifton, Lucille
...me and you be sisters.
we be the same.

me and you
coming from the same place.

me and you
be greasing our legs
touching up our edges.

me and you
be scared of rats
be stepping on roaches.

me and you
come running high down purdy street one time
and mama laugh and shake her head at
me and you.

me and you
got babies
got thirty-five
got black
let our hair go back
be loving ourselves
be loving ourselves
be sisters.

only where you sing,...Read more of this...

by Dickey, James
...e more thing in all coming back to die three or four more times after death. 
At last we got him out logrolling him greasing his sandpaper skin 
With lard to slide him pulling on his chained lips as the tide came, 
Tumbled him down the steps as the first night wave went under the floor. 
He drifted off head back belly white as the moon. What could I do but buy 
That house for the one black mark still there against death a forehead- 
 toucher in the room he circles...Read more of this...

by Chesterton, G K
...of that faith might perhaps have grown cold, 
With the care of a baby of seven weeks old. 

For mother is happy in greasing a wheel 
For somebody else, who is cornering Steel; 
And though our one meeting was not very long, 
She took the occasion to sing me this song: 
"O, hush thee, my baby, the time will soon come 
When thy sleep will be broken with hooting and hum; 
There are handles want turning and turning all day, 
And knobs to be pressed in the usual way; 

O, hush...Read more of this...

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