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Famous Scurry Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Mayakovsky, Vladimir
...annot sing. 
In the heart¡¯s chapel the choir loft catches fire! 

The scorched figurines of words and numbers 
scurry from the skull 
like children from a flaming building. 
Thus fear, 
in its effort to grasp at the sky, 
lifted high 
the flaming arms of the Lusitania. 

Into the calm of the apartment 
where people quake, 
a hundred-eye blaze bursts from the docks. 
Moan 
into the centuries, 
if you can, a last scream: I¡¯m on fire! 


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by Nash, Ogden
..., Isabel, glad to meet you,
How do, Isabel, now I'll eat you!
Isabel, Isabel, didn't worry.
Isabel didn't scream or scurry.
She washed her hands and she straightened her hair up,
Then Isabel quietly ate the bear up.
Once in a night as black as pitch
Isabel met a wicked old witch.
the witch's face was cross and wrinkled,
The witch's gums with teeth were sprinkled.
Ho, ho, Isabel! the old witch crowed,
I'll turn you into an ugly toad!
Isabel, Isabel, didn't ...Read more of this...

by Thomas, Dylan
...turnips punishes the land,
Some let me make of you the heartless words.
The heart is drained that, spelling in the scurry
Of chemic blood, warned of the coming fury.
By the sea's side hear the dark-vowelled birds....Read more of this...

by Rossetti, Christina
...d at a rat's pace,
One crawled like a snail,
One like a wombat prowled obtuse and furry,
One like a ratel tumbled hurry-scurry.
Lizzie heard a voice like voice of doves
Cooing all together:
They sounded kind and full of loves
In the pleasant weather.

Laura stretched her gleaming neck
Like a rush-imbedded swan,
Like a lily from the beck,
Like a moonlit poplar branch,
Like a vessel at the launch
When its last restraint is gone.

Backwards up the mossy glen
Turned a...Read more of this...

by Plath, Sylvia
...hair.

And seen my strangeness evaporate,
Blue dew from dangerous skin.
Will they hate me,
These women who only scurry,
Whose news is the open cherry, the open clover?

It is almost over.
I am in control.
Here is my honey-machine,
It will work without thinking,
Opening, in spring, like an industrious virgin

To scour the creaming crests
As the moon, for its ivory powders, scours the sea.
A third person is watching.
He has nothing to do with the bee-sel...Read more of this...



by Kipling, Rudyard
...And the Wreath of Eve is red on the turf as she left it long ago,
And if we could come when the sentry slept and softly scurry through,
By the favour of God we might know as much -- as our father Adam knew!...Read more of this...

by Tebb, Barry
...for it is night and there are neighbours.

The whistle of the forgotten kettle shrills: you turn down the gas

And scurry back to your poem as you would to a sick child

And ease the pain of disordered lines.

The face of your mother smiles like a Madonna bereft

And the faces of our children are always somewhere

As you focus your midnight eyes soft with tears.



You create to survive, a Balzac writing against the clock

A Baudelaire writing against the bailiff...Read more of this...

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