Famous Repellent Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Chicago Weather

...reeze.
So Doris is to-day enthused
By Thisbe's soft, responsive sighs, 
And on the morrow is confused
By Thisbe's cold, repellent eyes....Read more of this...
by Field, Eugene


Part 7 of Trout Fishing in America

...aluminum cookware and a portable ice box.

 The last things he charged were his fishing tackle and a

 bottle of insect repellent.

 He left the next day for the mountains.

 Hours later, when he arrived in the mountains, the first

 sixteen campgrounds he stopped at were filled with people.

 He was a little surprised. He had no idea the mountains

 would be so crowded.

 At the seventeenth campground, a man had just died of a

 heart attack and the ambulance attendants were...Read more of this...
by Brautigan, Richard

Poem of Joys

...t a slave, 
To meet life as a powerful conqueror, 
No fumes—no ennui—no more complaints, or scornful criticisms. 

O me repellent and ugly! 
To these proud laws of the air, the water, and the ground, proving my interior Soul
 impregnable,
And nothing exterior shall ever take command of me. 

O to attract by more than attraction! 
How it is I know not—yet behold! the something which obeys none of the rest, 
It is offensive, never defensive—yet how magnetic it draws. 

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O joy...Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt

Ugly Couple

...rive.
You might say they’re misshapen, repulsive and vile,
or cadaverous, gruesome and gross.
Maybe hideous, grisly, repellent and shocking,
disgusting, unpleasant, morose.
You can call them unsightly, or horrid or scary,
or monstrous or frightful or bad.
You can call them whatever you like, but to me
they will always be called “Mom and Dad.”

 --Kenn Nesbitt

Copyright © Kenn Nesbitt 1999. All Rights Reserved....Read more of this...
by Nesbitt, Kenn

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