Famous Reefer Poems by Famous Poets

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

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As You Leave Me

...u grab
your large leather purse? don't you know that when you leave me 
I walk to the window and watch you? and light
a reefer as I watch you? and I die as I watch you
disappear in the dark streets
to whistle and smile at the johns...Read more of this...
by Knight, Etheridge


El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz (Malcolm X)

...wn obsessed pursuit.

He conked his hair and Lindy-hopped,
zoot-suited jiver, swinging those chicks
in the hot rose and reefer glow.

His injured childhood bullied him.
He skirmished in the Upas trees
and cannibal flowers of the American Dream--

but could not hurt the enemy
powered against him there....Read more of this...
by Hayden, Robert

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