Famous Percentage Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Percentage poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous percentage poems. These examples illustrate what a famous percentage poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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by
Brautigan, Richard
...completely over, for it took a while to get
trout fishing in America off the clothes of the first-graders.
A fair percentage of trout fishing in America was gone the
next day. The mothers did this by simply putting clean
clothes on their children, but there were a lot of kids whose
mothers just tried to wipe it off and then sent them back to
school the next day with the same clothes on, but you could
still see "Trout fishing in America" faintly outlined on thei...Read more of this...
by
Brautigan, Richard
...rden and deported snakes when-
ever I found them on her place. She told me to kill them, but
I couldn't see any percentage in wasting a gartersnake. But
I had to get rid of the things because she always promisedme
she'd have a heart attack if she ever stepped on one of them.
So I'd catch them and deport them to a yard across the
street, where nine old ladies probably had heart attacks and
died from finding those snakes in their toothbrushes. Fort...Read more of this...
by
Levine, Philip
...for my eyes brim
With tears I had forgotten. Death is not
For these car salesmen whose only dream
Is of a small percentage of the take.
Oh my eternal smilers, weep for death
Whose harvest withers with your aged aches
And cannot make the grave for lack of breath.
III
Did you wet? Oh no, he had not wet.
How could he say it, it was hard to say
Because he did not understand it yet.
It had to do, maybe, with being away,
With being here where not...Read more of this...
by
Masters, Edgar Lee
...can close the house.
And if you lose, you can squeal as you will;
You'll not get back your money.
He makes the percentage hard to conquer;
He stacks the cards to catch your weakness
And not to meet your strength.
And he gives you seventy years to play:
For if you cannot win in seventy
You cannot win at all.
So, if you lose, get out of the room --
Get out of the room when your time is up.
It's mean to sit and fumble the cards,
And curse your losses, leaden...Read more of this...
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