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Famous Jab Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...golden hair
 Margarete
your ashen hair Sulamith we dig a grave in the breezes
 there one lies unconfined

He calls out jab deeper into the earth you lot you
 others sing now and play
he grabs at teh iron in his belt he waves it his
 eyes are blue
jab deper you lot with your spades you others play
 on for the dance

Black milk of daybreak we drink you at night
we drink you at at noon in the morning we drink you
 at sundown
we drink and we drink you
a man lives in the house yo...Read more of this...
by Celan, Paul



..., sore
for weapons. For the sin:

little it is gross Henry has to say.
The King heaved. Pluckt out, the ax-end would
he jab in his sole throat.
As if an end. A baby, the guard may
squire him to his apartments. Weeping & blood
wound round his one friend....Read more of this...
by Berryman, John
...alk between doctor and nurse)

the needle takes its time
feeling for entrance
(gentle talk between fingers and tongue)

JAB
searing lava
stuck pig

bouquets in white coats

sorely to bed
time
evaporates the pain

and
later

much relief...Read more of this...
by Gregory, Rg
...blow into patterns of fire-flowers as the sky fades. Trades 
scream
in spots of light at the unruffled night. Twinkle, jab, 
snap, that means
a new play; and over the way: plop, drop, quiver, is 
the sidelong
sliver of a watchmaker's sign with its length on another street.
A gigantic mug of beer effervesces to the atmosphere over a tall 
building,
but the sky is high and has her own stars, why should she heed ours?
I leave the city with speed. Wheels 
whirl to take me back t...Read more of this...
by Lowell, Amy
...ot the "life".
We're both as brown as berries, and could wrestle with a bear:
(That bannock's raising nicely, pal; just jab it with your knife.)
Fine specimens of manhood they would reckon us out there.
It's the tracking and the packing and the poling in the sun;
It's the sleeping in the open, it's the rugged, unfaked food;
It's the snow-shoe and the paddle, and the campfire and the gun,
And when I think of what I was, I know that it is good.

Just think of how we've poled al...Read more of this...
by Service, Robert William



...e
 Their heads are transistors
 Their teeth grit on sand grains
 Their lost kids are squalling
 While man-eating flies
 Jab electric shock needles but what can they do? 

They can climb in their cars with raw bodies, raw faces
 And start up the serpent
 And headache it homeward
 A car full of squabbles
 And sobbing and stickiness
 With sand in their crannies
 Inhaling petroleum
 That pours from the foxgloves
 While the evening swallow
The swallow of summer, cartwheeling throu...Read more of this...
by Hughes, Ted
...l, you cower; then once again you plunge
 With all your comrades roaring at your heels.
Have at 'em lads! You stab, you jab, you lunge;
 A blaze of glory, then the red world reels.
A crash of triumph, then . . . you're faint a bit . . .
 That cursed puttee! Now to fasten it. . . .

Well, that's the charge. And now I'm here alone.
 I've built a little wall of Hun on Hun,
To shield me from the leaden bees that drone
 (It saves me worry, and it hurts 'em none).
The only thing I'...Read more of this...
by Service, Robert William

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