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Famous Hairline Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...This is not the way I am.
Really, I am much taller in person,
the hairline I conceal reaches back
to my grandfather, and the shyness my wife
will not believe in has always been why
I was bold on first dates. My father a crack salesman.
I've saved his pines, the small acclamations
I used to show my friends. And the billyclub
I keep by my bed was his, too; an heirloom.
I am somewhat older than you can tell.
The early deaths ...Read more of this...
by Dunn, Stephen



...sing across the collar. It's cool out, he says, 
cooler than she thinks. There are tiny dots 
of perspiration below his hairline. What a day 
for strolling in the park! Refusing the chair 
by the window, he seems to have no time, 
as though this day were passing forever, 
although it is barely after two of a late May 
afternoon a whole year before the modern era. 
Of course she'll take a jacket, she tells him, 
of course she was planning to, and she opens her hands, 
the fing...Read more of this...
by Levine, Philip
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Thirty-fivish, and looks it lately
Five-feet-nine and one-hundred-thirty pounds: no physique

Black hair going gray, hairline receding fast
What used to be curly, now fuzzy

Brown eyes starey under beetling brow
Mole on chin, probably will become a wen

It is perfectly obvious that he was not popular at school
No good at baseball, and wet his bed.

His aliases tell his history: Dumbell, Good-for-nothing,
Jewboy, Fieldinsky, Skinny, Fierce Face, Greaseball, Sissy.

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by Field, Edward

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