Famous Parka Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Before you knew you owned it

...er
Than your own small heart
Or greater than a star;
Tame wild disappointment
With caress unmoved and cold
Make of it a parka
For your soul.

Discover the reason why
So tiny human midget
Exists at all
So scared unwise
But expect nothing. Live frugally
On surprise....Read more of this...
by Walker, Alice


Expect Nothing

...han your own small heart
Or greater than a star;
Tame wild disappointment
With caress unmoved and cold
Make of it a parka
For your soul.


Discover the reason why
So tiny human midget
Exists at all
So scared unwise
But expect nothing. Live frugally
On surprise. ...Read more of this...
by Walker, Alice

LEnvoi

...n snow,
And down the drifted canyon heard the bitter,
 Relentless slogan of the winds of woe.
The city was forgot, and, parka-skirted,
 We trod that leagueless land that once we knew;
We saw stream past, down valleys glacier-girted,
 The wolf-worn legions of the caribou.
We smoked our pipes, o'er scenes of triumph dwelling;
 Of deeds of daring, dire defeats, we talked;
And other tales that lost not in the telling,
 Ere to our beds uncertainly we walked.

And so, dear friends,...Read more of this...
by Service, Robert William

Men Of The High North

...-fire at forty below?

Can you remember your huskies all going,
 Barking with joy and their brushes in air;
You in your parka, glad-eyed and glowing,
 Monarch, your subjects the wolf and the bear?
Monarch, your kingdom unravisht and gleaming;
 Mountains your throne, and a river your car;
Crash of a bull moose to rouse you from dreaming;
 Forest your couch, and your candle a star.

You who this faint day the High North is luring
 Unto her vastness, taintlessly sweet;
You who a...Read more of this...
by Service, Robert William

The Ballad Of Blasphemous Bill

...;
When the pine-trees crack like little guns in the silence of the wood,
And the icicles hang down like tusks under the parka hood;
When the stove-pipe smoke breaks sudden off, and the sky is weirdly lit,
And the careless feel of a bit of steel burns like a red-hot spit;
When the mercury is a frozen ball, and the frost-fiend stalks to kill--
Well, it was just like that that day when I set out to look for Bill.

Oh, the awful hush that seemed to crush me down on every hand,
As...Read more of this...
by Service, Robert William


V

...o love, and sleep's oblivion, I know
what the UNITED that the skin sprayed has to mean.

Hanging my clothes up, from my parka hood
may and apple petals, browned and creased,
fall onto the carpet and bring back the flood
of feelings their first falling had released.

I hear like ghosts from all Leeds matches humming
with one concerted voice the bride, the bride
I feel united to, my bride is coming
into the bedroom, naked, to my side.

The ones we choose to love become our anch...Read more of this...
by Harrison, Tony

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