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Famous Plopped Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Gregory, Rg
...tempt
you can't treat frogs like that - repent
i beg you or you'll end up cursed

it tipped backwards off the hedge
and plopped into next door's pond
such a cackle of frog's song then
moon shone brightly in the water

no frog came back to the stone
moon stayed away from my garden
so (guiltily) i built a pond -
something keeps draining the water...Read more of this...



by Brautigan, Richard
...ndoned equipment and tropical flowers, on the floor and

on the furniture.

 I took the sheet into the bathroom and plopped it into the

tub and turned the cold water on it. Their dog came in and

started barking at me.

 The dog barked so loud that the bathroom was soon filled

with dead people. One of them wanted to use my wet sheet

for a shroud. I said no, and we got into a big argument over

it and woke up the Puerto Ricans in the next apartment, and
...Read more of this...

by Hudgins, Andrew
...unted her green satin dress, smart shoes,
I'm sure the poor thing knew who'd purchase her,
wrote Mrs. Chestnut, who plopped on a stool
to discipline her thoughts. Today I saw,
in that same square, three black girls pick loose tar,
flick it at one another's new white dresses,
then squeal with laughter. Three girls about that age
of those blown up in church in Birmingham.

The legendary buses rumble past the church
where Reverend King preached when he lived in t...Read more of this...

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