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Famous Placards Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...es with

Pails of milk.





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Even the Hollows

Are gone now

The Go Kart’s Stadium’s

Wire mesh set in concrete,

Placards round the concourse,

The Readymix factory’s

Dumb towers, the DIY yard

And ‘Beer Paradise’ board,

The street sign

‘Bridgewater Place’

Lying on its side.



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Wallflowers

Lost and faded

Beige and sepia

Orange and maroon

Old-fashioned flowers

For a tired mind.





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“Millionnaires of Leeds!

You are your brothers’ keepers.”

Finders...Read more of this...
by Tebb, Barry



...rk.”

The poor old guy plumb dead was found
And planted in the buryin’ ground,
 Still graspin’ in his hand of ice
 Them placards with this sad device:
 “No beer, no work.”...Read more of this...
by Butler, Ellis Parker
...ne equals other.

Most emotions are mini-faces, and the speech 
balloon is ubiquitous. A bull inside one is dialect
for placards inside one. Sun and moon together

inside one is poetry. Sun and moon over palette,
over shoes etc are all art forms — but above
a cracked heart and champagne glass? Riddle that

and you're starting to think in World, whose grammar 
is Chinese-terse and fluid. Who needs the square-
equals-diamond book, the dictionary,to know figures

led by strings ...Read more of this...
by Murray, Les
...
Rearing snow-peaks of chipped sugar
Above the lighthouse-shaped castors
Of grey pepper and grey-white salt.
Grey-white placards: "Oyster Stew, Cornbeef Hash, Frankfurters":
Marble slabs veined with words in meandering lines.
Dropping on the white counter like horn notes
Through a web of violins,
The flat yellow lights of oranges,
The cube-red splashes of apples,
In high plated `epergnes'.
The electric clock jerks every half-minute:
"Coming! -- Past!"
"Three beef-steaks and a...Read more of this...
by Lowell, Amy

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