Famous Junkyard Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Junkyard poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous junkyard poems. These examples illustrate what a famous junkyard poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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...me straight and even.
This was the first beach of assault;
the odor of death hung in the air
like rotting potatoes, the junkyard
of landing craft waited open and rusting.
The bodies were strung out as if they were
still reaching for each other, where they lay
to blacken, to burst through their perfect
skin. And Johnny Pole was one of them.
He gave in like a small wave, a sudden
hole in his belly and the years all gone
where the Pacific noon chipped its light out.
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by
Sexton, Anne
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