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Famous Unattractive Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Baraka, Imamu Amiri
...
(Only jack Kerouac, that I know of: & me.
The rest of you probably had on WCBS and Kate Smith,
Or something equally unattractive.)

What can I say?
It is better to haved loved and lost
Than to put linoleum in your living rooms?

Am I a sage or something?
Mandrake's hypnotic gesture of the week?
(Remember, I do not have the healing powers of Oral Roberts...
I cannot, like F. J. Sheen, tell you how to get saved & rich!
I cannot even order you to the gaschamber sat...Read more of this...



by Duhamel, Denise
...
that I didn't even like the poet in the dream, that he has 
four kids, the youngest one my age, and I find him 
rather unattractive, that I only met him once,
that is, in real life, and that was in a large group 
in which I barely spoke up. He disgusted me 
with his disparaging remarks about women.
He even used the word "Jap"
which I took as a direct insult to my husband who's Asian. 
When we were first dating, I told him
"You were talking in your sleep last nigh...Read more of this...

by Hardy, Thomas
...!" 

X 

 "And, General, how hold out our sweethearts, 
 Sworn loyal as doves?" 
 --"Many mourn; many think 
 It is not unattractive to prink 
Them in sables for heroes. Some fickle and fleet hearts 
 Have found them new loves." 

XI 

 "And our wives?" quoth another resignedly, 
 "Dwell they on our deeds?" 
 --"Deeds of home; that live yet 
 Fresh as new--deeds of fondness or fret; 
Ancient words that were kindly expressed or unkindly, 
 These, these have their heeds...Read more of this...

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