Famous Hankie Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Animals Are Passing From Our Lives

by Philip Levine
 It's wonderful how I jog
on four honed-down ivory toes
my massive buttocks slipping
like oiled parts with each light step.

I'm to market. I can smell
the sour, grooved block, I can smell
the blade that opens the hole
and the pudgy white fingers

that shake out the intestines
like a hankie. In my dreams 
the snouts drool on the marble,
suffering children, suffering flies,

suffering the consumers
who won't...Read more of this...

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