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Famous Plunger Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Sexton, Anne
...c smile—
even he seems blurred, small and pale.
I have come back,
recommitted,
fastened to the wall like a bathroom plunger,
held like a prisoner
who was so poor
he fell in love with jail.

I stand at this old window
complaining of the soup,
examining the grounds,
allowing myself the wasted life.
Soon I will raise my face for a white flag,
and when God enters the fort,
I won't spit or gag on his finger.
I will eat it like a white flower.
Is this the old tr...Read more of this...



by Heaney, Seamus
...So winter closed its fist
And got it stuck in the pump.
The plunger froze up a lump

In its throat, ice founding itself
Upon iron. The handle
Paralysed at an angle.

Then the twisting of wheat straw
into ropes, lapping them tight
Round stem and snout, then a light

That sent the pump up in a flame
It cooled, we lifted her latch,
Her entrance was wet, and she came....Read more of this...

by Sandburg, Carl
...r Kenosha.

The long sand changes.
To-day is a goner.
Time knocks in another brass nail.
Another yellow plunger shoots the dark.

 Constellations
 Wheeling over Omaha
 As in Chicago
 Or Kenosha.

The long sand is gone
 and all the talk is stars.
They circle in a dome over Nebraska....Read more of this...

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