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Famous Sharpener Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Brautigan, Richard
...Ale-like offspring.

 I believe I saw a woodcock. He had a long bill like putting

a fire hydrant into a pencil sharpener, then pasting it onto

a bird and letting the bird fly away in front of me with this

thing on its face for no other purpose than to amaze me.

 I worked my way slowly out of the marsh until the creek

again became a muscular thing, the strongest Paradise

Creek in the world. I was then close enough to see the sheep.

There were hundred...Read more of this...



by Brautigan, Richard
...f my favorite holes, and always good for a trout or two.

 I always like to think of that hole as a kind of pencil

sharpener. I put my reflexes in and they came back out with

a good point on them. Over a period of a couple of years, I

must have caught fifty trout in that hole, though it was only

as big as a wagon wheel.

 I was fishing with salmon eggs and using a size 14 single

egg hook on a pound and a quarter test tippet. The two trout

lay in my c...Read more of this...

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