Famous Swiped Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Gin

...The first time I drank gin
I thought it must be hair tonic.
My brother swiped the bottle
from a guy whose father owned
a drug store that sold booze
in those ancient, honorable days
when we acknowledged the stuff
was a drug. Three of us passed
the bottle around, each tasting
with disbelief. People paid
for this? People had to have
it, the way we had to have
the women we never got near.
(Actually they were girls, but
never mind, ...Read more of this...
by Levine, Philip


Richard Coeur de Lion

...Who's going to stop me?" 
Said Saladin: "I will-and quick!" 
So the King poked his sword at the Sultan, 
Who, in turn, swiped his skimpter at Dick. 

They fought all that day without ceasing; 
They fought till at last they both saw 
That each was a match for the other, 
So they chucked it and called it a draw. 

As Richard rode home in the moonlight 
He heard someone trying to croon, 
And there by the roadside stood Blondel, 
Still playing his signature tune. 

He'd worked o...Read more of this...
by Edgar, Marriott

Voyages

...put ashore or drowned, 
but no one heard. Enormous in his long coat, 
Sinbad would take the helm and shout out 
orders swiped from pirate movies. Once 
we docked north of Vermillion to meet 
a single spur of the old Ohio Western 
and sat for days waiting for a train, 
waiting for someone to claim the cargo 
or give us anything to take back, 
like the silver Cadillac roadster 
it was rumored we had once freighted 
by itself. The others went foraging 
and left me with the Capt...Read more of this...
by Levine, Philip

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