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Famous Off The Streets Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Thomas, Dylan
...
"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 Sandburg, Carl
...n.

Then you were a little thing in checked gingham and your mother wiped your nose and said: You little fool, keep off the streets.

Now you are a big girl at last and streetfuls of people read your name and a line of people shaped like a letter S stand at the box office hoping to see you shimmy....Read more of this...

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