Famous Prams Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Prams poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous prams poems. These examples illustrate what a famous prams poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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...in the halls so big
You had to jump and
Rats the size of cats.
The children who lived there
Pushed coal in broken prams
Their jerseys had more
Holes than wool
They had impetigo
We passed them quickly
On the other side.
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In the chemist’s shop
Stood the huge retorts
Of red and green
In the coal fire glowed
‘The Burning Fiery Furnace’
Against the binyard wall
Margaret played ball
Deftly lifting her leg
Passing the ball beneath
Catching it again
In f...Read more of this...
by
Tebb, Barry
...when they met each turned
Away a head;
Each went her waspish way
With muted damns--
Until they met one day
With baby prams.
Then lo! Away was swept
The scorn of years;
Hands clasped they almost wept
With gentle tears.
Forgetting hateful days,
All mother mild,
Each took with tender praise
The other's child.
And now they talk of milk,
Of diapers and such;
Of baby bosoms silk
And tender to the touch.
A gemlike girl and boy,--
With hope unsaid,
Each thinks with mother...Read more of this...
by
Service, Robert William
...effort is always to make the symbols obvious:
the bolt of electricity, winged stethoscope of course
for flying doctor. Prams under fire? Soviet film industry.
Pictographs also shouldn't be too culture-bound:
A heart circled and crossed out surely isn't.
For red, betel spit lost out to ace of diamonds.
Black is the ace of spades. The kind of spades
reads Union boss, the two is feeble effort.
If is the shorthand Libra sing , the scales.
Spare literal pictures render most no...Read more of this...
by
Murray, Les
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