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Famous Jamming Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Tebb, Barry
...antofts.





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We heard him a mile off

Nights in summer when

He trundled round the

Corner over the cobbles

Jamming the wood brake

Blocks whoaing the horses

With their gleaming brasses

And our mams were always

Waiting where he stopped.





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Double summer-time made

The nights go on for ever

And no-one cared any more

How long we played what

Or where and we were left

Alone and that’s all I wanted

Then or now to be left alone

Never to be called in...Read more of this...



by Pound, Ezra
...nward
Bore us onward with bellying canvas,
Crice's this craft, the trim-coifed goddess.
Then sat we amidships, wind jamming the tiller,
Thus with stretched sail, we went over sea till day's end.
Sun to his slumber, shadows o'er all the ocean,
Came we then to the bounds of deepest water,
To the Kimmerian lands, and peopled cities
Covered with close-webbed mist, unpierced ever
With glitter of sun-rays
Nor with stars stretched, nor looking back from heaven
Swartest night...Read more of this...

by Paterson, Andrew Barton
...caving and the sinking's very slow, 
And the yellow rods are bending in the water down below, 
And the tubes are always jamming, and they can't be made to shift 
Till we nearly burst the engine with a forty horse-power lift. 
Sinking down, deeper down, 
Oh, we're going deeper down: 
Though the shaft is always caving, and the tubes are always jamming, 
Yet we'll fight our way to water while the stubborn drill is ramming -- 
While the stubborn drill is ramming deeper down.<...Read more of this...

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