Famous Smacked Poems by Famous Poets

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

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A Cabin Tale

...e one fat chicken fus'."
Den de man he scratch his haid,
Las' he say, "I'll mek de trade."
So de weasel et his hen,
Smacked his mouf and says, "Well, den,
Set yo' trap an' bait ternight,
An' I 'll ketch de bah all right."[Pg 155]
Den he ups an' goes to see
Mistah Bah, an' says, says he:
"Well, fren' Bah, we ain't been fren's,
But ternight ha'd feelin' 'en's.
Ef you ain't too proud to steal,
We kin git a sp...Read more of this...
by Laurence Dunbar, Paul


Crater Face

...ouse or goats
running in the street.
 It was my way of praying,
my way of un-imagining the Drano pellets
that must have smacked against her
like a round of mini-bullets,
her whole face as vulnerable as a tongue
wrapped in sizzling pizza cheese.
How she'd come home with homework,
the weight of her books bending her into a wilting plant.
How her father called her ****, *****, big baby, slob.
The hospital where she was forced to say it was an accident.
Her face palpable as somet...Read more of this...
by Duhamel, Denise

Five Bells

...looked out my window in the dark 
At waves with diamond quills and combs of light 
That arched their mackerel-backs and smacked the sand 
In the moon's drench, that straight enormous glaze, 
And ships far off asleep, and Harbour-buoys 
Tossing their fireballs wearily each to each, 
And tried to hear your voice, but all I heard 
Was a boat's whistle, and the scraping squeal 
Of seabirds' voices far away, and bells, 
Five bells. Five bells coldly ringing out. 
Five bells....Read more of this...
by Slessor, Kenneth

Freddy

...o the fen
He is his and my own heart's best
World without end ahem.
People who say we ought to get married ought to get smacked:
Why should we do it when we can't afford it and have
 ourselves whacked?
Thank you kind friends and relations thank you,
We do very well as we do.
Oh what do I care for the pub lub lights
And the friends I love so well-
There's more in the way I feel about Freddy
Than a friend cal tell.
But all the same I don't care much for his meelyoo I mean
I don...Read more of this...
by Smith, Stevie

Hard Rock Returns To Prison From The Hospital For The Criminal Insane

...the cloak 
Of his exploits: "Man, the last time, it took eight
Screws to put him in the Hole." "Yeah, remember when he
Smacked the captain with his dinner tray?" "he set
The record for time in the Hole-67 straight days!"
"Ol Hard Rock! man, that's one crazy ******."
And then the jewel of a myth that Hard Rock had once bit
A screw on the thumb and poisoned him with syphilitic spit. 

The testing came to see if Hard Rock was really tame. 
A hillbilly called him a black son of ...Read more of this...
by Knight, Etheridge


Isaac and Archibald

...sedly pulled out the plug 
With such a practised hand that scarce a drop
Did even touch his fingers. Then he drank 
And smacked his lips with a slow patronage 
And looked along the line of barrels there 
With a pride that may have been forgetfulness 
That they were Archibald’s and not his own.
“I never twist a spigot nowadays,” 
He said, and raised the glass up to the light, 
“But I thank God for orchards.” And that glass 
Was filled repeatedly for the same hand 
Before I tho...Read more of this...
by Robinson, Edwin Arlington

The Ballad Of The Ice-Worm Cocktail

...aping Major Brown,
Like a libation to the gods, each dashed his cocktail down.
The Major gasped with horror as the trio smacked their lips.
He twiddled at his eye-glass with unsteady finger-tips.
Into his starry cocktail with a look of woe he peered,
And its ice-worm, to his thinking, mosy incontinently leered.
Yet on him were a hundred eyes, though no one spoke aloud,
For hushed with expectation was the waiting, watching crowd.
The Major's fumbling hand went forth - the gang...Read more of this...
by Service, Robert William

The Channel Swimmer

...him. 

The tug circled round till they found him, 
They hauled him aboard like a sack,
Tied a new tow-rope around him, 
Smacked him and then threw him back.

'Twere at sunset, or just a bit later, 
That he realized all wasn't right,
For the tow-rope were trailing behind him 
And the noose round his waist getting tight.

One hasty glance over his shoulder,
He saw in a flash what were wrong. 
The Captain had shut off his engine,
Joe were towing the Tugboat along.

On and on thr...Read more of this...
by Edgar, Marriott

The Child Bearers

...ne pushed into gnawing a stilbestrol cancer
I passed on like hemophilia,
or yours in the seventh grade, with her spleen
smacked in by the balance beam.
And we, mothers, crumpled, and flyspotted
with bringing them this far
can do nothing now but pray.

Let us put your three children
and my two children,
ages ranging from eleven to twenty-one,
and send them in a large air net up to God,
with many stamps, real air mail,
and huge signs attached:
SPECIAL HANDLING.
DO NOT STAPLE, F...Read more of this...
by Sexton, Anne

The Christmas Trail

...other mav'ricks drifted from the plains.
  Ay! the pot bubbled hot, while you reckoned I'd forgot,
    And the devil smacked the young blood in his stew,
  Yet I'm lovin' every mile that's nearer you,  Good folks,
    Lovin' every blessed mile that's nearer you.

  Oh, mebbe it was good at the roundup in the Fall
    When the clouds of bawlin' dust before us ran,
  And the pride of rope and saddle was a-drivin' of us all
    To a stretch of nerve and muscle, man and...Read more of this...
by Clark, Badger

The Spellin'-bee

...ur ears, to smother our ambition.
But boxin' ears was too short work to hinder our arrivin',
He jest turned roun' an' smacked us all, an' kep' right on a-drivin'.
Well, soon the schoolhouse hove in sight, the winders beamin' brightly;
The sound o' talkin' reached our ears, and voices laffin' lightly.
It puffed us up so full an' big 'at I 'll jest bet a dollar,
There wa'n't a feller there but felt the strain upon his collar.
So down we jumped an' in we went ez sprightly...Read more of this...
by Laurence Dunbar, Paul

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