Famous Pancake Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Cripples And Other Stories

...ted life.
My father smoked cigars.

My cheeks blossomed with maggots.
I picked at them like pearls.
I covered them with pancake.
I wound my hair in curls.

My father didn't know me
but you kiss me in my fever.
My mother knew me twice
and then I had to leave her.

But those are just two stories
and I have more to tell
from the outhouse, the greenhouse
where you draw me out of hell.

Father, I am thirty-six,
yet I lie here in your crib.
I'm getting born again, Adam,
as you prod...Read more of this...
by Sexton, Anne


Im A Jazz Singer She Replied

...n warm brown bread.

"Jazz" from drowsy lips
orchids lift to honeybees
floating on long sips.

"Jazz": quick fingerpops
pancake on a griddle-top
of memories. Stop.

"Jazz": mysterious
as nutmeg, missing fingers,
gold, Less serious.

"Jazz": cool bannister.
Don't need no stair. Ways to climb
when the sax is there....Read more of this...
by Emanuel, James A

Pancake Day

...Great A, little a,This is pancake day;Toss the ball high,Throw the ball low,Those that come afterMay sing heigh-ho! ...Read more of this...
by Goose, Mother

The Player Piano

...I ate pancakes one night in a Pancake House
Run by a lady my age. She was gay.
When I told her that I came from Pasadena
She laughed and said, "I lived in Pasadena
When Fatty Arbuckle drove the El Molino bus."

I felt that I had met someone from home.
No, not Pasadena, Fatty Arbuckle.
Who's that? Oh, something that we had in common
Like -- like -- the false armist...Read more of this...
by Jarrell, Randall

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