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Famous Mache Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry
...Starspangled cowboy 
sauntering out of the almost-
silly West, on your face 
a porcelain grin, 
tugging a papier-mache cactus 
on wheels behind you with a string, 


you are innocent as a bathtub
full of bullets.


Your righteous eyes, your laconic 
trigger-fingers
people the streets with villains: 
as you move, the air in front of you 
blossoms with targets


and you leave behind you a heroic 
trail of desolation: 
beer bottles 
slaughtered by the side 
of the road, b...Read more of this...
by Atwood, Margaret



...arge soft feet pressed warmly on the skin, 
The two glass eyes would sparkle in his head, 
The jaws extend their papier-mache grin. 

Good people, for the soul of Henry Clay 
Offer your prayers, and view his destiny! 
He was the Hero of our Time. He may 
With any luck, one day, be you or me....Read more of this...
by Hope, Alec Derwent (A D)
...anache above snow... 
It would have been outside. 

It was not from the vast ventriloquism 
Of sleep's faded papier-mache... 
The sun was coming from the outside. 

That scrawny cry--It was
A chorister whose c preceded the choir.
It was part of the colossal sun, 

Surrounded by its choral rings,
Still far away. It was like
A new knowledge of reality. ...Read more of this...
by Stevens, Wallace
...Papier-mache body; blue-and-black cotton jersey cover. Metal stand.
Instructions included.
-- Sears, Roebuck Catalogue

O my coy darling, still
You wear for me the scent
Of those long afternoons we spent,
The two of us together,
Safe in the attic from the jealous eyes
Of household spies
And the remote buffooneries of the weather;
So high,
Our sole remaining neighbo...Read more of this...
by Justice, Donald

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Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry