Famous Jabbed Poems by Famous Poets

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

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new age

...on in such rooms
that stare from their windows)
cars tap the kerb
their eyes put out
by the order of fingers
that have jabbed
through the skin of the earth
infected with visions

there is ink in us
swirling (if we spill it 
we bloom) - no writing
erupting from the cave
where the guilt-laden 
beast has his parchment
will do for our murders

we must stab with a
brash shape of pen
no quill but a sting-ray

(iv)
marshes are the womb
of the poor - the flowers
that creep out of do...Read more of this...
by Gregory, Rg


Prisoners

...an cry for them?
I've heard the old ones
are the hardest to break.
An arm twist, a combat boot
against the skull, a .45
jabbed into the mouth, nothing
works. When they start talking
with ancestors faint as camphor
smoke in pagodas, you know
you'll have to kill them
to get an answer.
Sunlight throws
scythes against the afternoon.
Everything's a heat mirage; a river
tugs at their slow feet.
I stand alone & amazed,
with a pill-happy door gunner
signaling for me to board the Cobr...Read more of this...
by Komunyakaa, Yusef

Strange Meeting

...nds were.
I am the enemy you killed, my friend.
I knew you in this dark; for so you frowned
Yesterday through me as you jabbed and killed.
I parried; but my hands were loath and cold.
Let us sleep now . . ."


 (This poem was found among the author's papers.
 It ends on this strange note.)


 *Another Version*

Earth's wheels run oiled with blood. Forget we that.
Let us lie down and dig ourselves in thought.
Beauty is yours and you have mastery,
Wisdom is mine, and I have mys...Read more of this...
by Owen, Wilfred

The Ballad Of Salvation Bill

...med to swell, and grow to Heaven's height,
And in a voice that rang he answered: "No!"

I grabbed my loaded rifle and I jabbed it to his chest:
"Come on, you shrimp, give me that Book," says I.
Well sir, he was a parson, but he stacked up with the best,
And for grit I got to hand it to the guy.
"If I should let you desecrate this Holy Word," he said,
"My soul would be eternally accurst;
So go on, Bill, I'm ready. You can pump me full of lead
And take it, but - you've got to k...Read more of this...
by Service, Robert William

The Matrimonial Stakes

...r -- it's not often that occurs! 
So I didn't let my golden chances slip, 
For I showed her all the blood-marks where I jabbed him with the spurs, 
And the whip-strokes where I hit him with the whip. 

Then I asked her if she loved me, and she seemed inclined to shirk 
For a moment so I took her by the head 
(So to speak) and rushed her at it; and she seemed to like the work 
When she kissed me, though she blushed a rosy red. 

She's a mouth as soft as velvet, and she plenty ...Read more of this...
by Paterson, Andrew Barton


The Odyssey Of Erbert Iggins

...The Boches have got us for fair.
Another one -- WHUT!
The son of a ****!
 'E managed to miss by a 'air.
'Ow! Wot was it jabbed at me shoulder?
 Gave it a dooce of a wrench.
Is it Eddy or me
Wot's a-bleedin' so free?
 Crust! but it's long to the trench.
I ain't just as strong as a Sandow,
 And Ed ain't a flapper by far;
I'm blamed if I understand 'ow
 We've managed to get where we are.
But 'ere's for a bit of a breather.
 "Steady there, Ed, 'arf a mo'.
Old pal, it's all right;...Read more of this...
by Service, Robert William

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