Famous Macintosh Poems by Famous Poets

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

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16-bit Intel 8088 chip

...with an Apple Macintosh
you can't run Radio Shack programs
in its disc drive.
nor can a Commodore 64
drive read a file
you have created on an
IBM Personal Computer.
both Kaypro and Osborne computers use
the CP/M operating system
but can't read each other's
handwriting
for they format (write
on) discs in different
ways.
the Tandy 2000 runs MS-DOS but
can't use most program...Read more of this...
by Bukowski, Charles


Now

...heir time to
celebrate. 
"terribly overrated..." 
"gross..." 
"an aberration..." 
my hands sink into the
keyboard
of my
Macintosh,
it's the same old
con
that scraped me
off the streets and
park benches,
the same simple
line
I learned in those
cheap rooms,
I can't let
go,
sitting here
on this 2nd floor
hunched over in yellow
pajamas
still pretending to be
a writer. 
the gods smile down,
the gods smile down,
the gods smile down. 
Black Sparrow "New Year's Greeting" 1992...Read more of this...
by Thomas, Dylan

The Battle of Culloden

...e, who made a grand display
On the field of Culloden on that ever-memorable day. 

Likewise the Camerons, Stewarts, and Macintoshes, Maclachlans and Macleans,
And John Roy Stewart's regiment, united into one, these are their names;
Besides the Macleods, Chisholms, Macdonalds of Clanranald and Glengarry,
Also the noble chieftain Keppoch, all eager the English to harry. 

The second line of the Highland army formed in column on the right,
Consisting of the Gordons, under Lord L...Read more of this...
by McGonagall, William Topaz

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