Famous Phone Book Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Phone Book poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous phone book poems. These examples illustrate what a famous phone book poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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...would like to make you believe in me.
When I come home at night after teaching myself
to students, I want to search the phone book
for their numbers, call them, and pick their brains.
Oh, I am much less flamboyant than this.
If you ever meet me, I'll be the one with the lapel
full of carnations....Read more of this...
by
Dunn, Stephen
...not computed and attested in the back of an arithmetic for the verifications of the lazy
there is no authority in the phone book for us to call and ask the why, the wherefore, and the howbeit it’s … a riddle … by God....Read more of this...
by
Sandburg, Carl
...I believe life ends with death, and that is all.
You haven't both gone shopping; just the same,
in my new black leather phone book there's your name
and the disconnected number I still call....Read more of this...
by
Harrison, Tony
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