Famous Padlock Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Dreaming The Breasts

by Anne Sexton
 Mother,
strange goddess face
above my milk home,
that delicate asylum,
I ate you up.
All my need took
you down like a meal.

What you gave
I remember in a dream:
the freckled arms binding me,
the laugh somewhere over my woolly hat,
the blood fingers tying my shoe,
the breasts hanging like two bats
and then darting at me,
bending me down.

The breasts I knew at midnight
beat like the sea in...Read more of this...

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