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Famous Skimpy Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Laurence Dunbar, Paul
...drizzle ain't no good.
Gimme folks dat speak out nachul,
Whut 'll say des whut dey mean,
Whut don't set dey wo'ds so skimpy
Dat you got to guess between.
I want talk des' lak de showahs
Whut kin wash de dust erway,
Not dat sprinklin' convusation,
Dat des drizzle all de day.
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by Belloc, Hilaire
...
Repulsive Don--Don past all bearing.
Don of the cold and doubtful breath,
Don despicable, Don of death;
Don nasty, skimpy, silent, level;
Don evil, Don that serves the devil.
Don ugly--that makes fifty lines.
There is a Canon which confines
A Rhymed Octosyllabic Curse
If written in Iambic Verse
To fifty lines. I never cut;
I far prefer to end it--but
Believe me I shall soon return.
My fires are banked, but still they burn
To write some more about the Don
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by Service, Robert William
...m, but not so fat),
 Quite shocked are we.

And so we dread with dim dismay
Some day she may her charms display
 In skimpy wear;
Aye, even in a gee-string she
May frolic on the stage of the
 Folies-Bèrgere

But e'er she does, I hope she'll read
This worldly wise and warning screed,
 That to conceal,
Unto the ordinary man
Is often more alluring than
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