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Famous Oz Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Brautigan, Richard
...while she was putting the fish back by

herself.

 Then she grew tired of this. She tipped the pan over and

a dozen fish flopped out onto the shore. The children's game

and the banker's game, she picked up those silver things,

one at a time, and put them back in the pan. There was still

a little water in it. The fish liked this. You could tell.

 When she got tired of the fish, we put them back in the

lake, and they were all quite alive, but n...Read more of this...



by Tebb, Barry
...s children visiting in spite of the spare room

Stacked with toys, with shelves of dusty books, Baum’s ‘Magical Land of Oz’

Its spine laid bare, Mombi the witch, Dorothy and Toto

Gathered forlornly round the saw-horse, the scarlet and crimson

Of their Edwardian rig slightly ridiculous, the Gothic typeface

Evoking sepia prints of my father at five in a pinafore or seven

In a sailor-suit feeding the Sunday birds, my grandmother

Framed in a trellis of mignonette, the aroma...Read more of this...

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