Famous Urinal Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Enoch Dunlap

...and watched for a chance to destroy
The Sacred Rights of the People.
You common rabble! I left the caucus
To go to the urinal....Read more of this...
by Masters, Edgar Lee


Last Instructions to a Painter

...swells like squatted toad, 
Frisks like a frog, to croak a tax's load; 
His patient piss he could hold longer than 
An urinal, and sit like any hen; 
At table jolly as a country host 
And soaks his sack with Norfolk, like a toast; 
At night, than Chanticleer more brisk and hot, 
And Sergeant's wife serves him for Pertelotte. 

Paint last the King, and a dead shade of night 
Only dispersed by a weak taper's light, 
And those bright gleams that dart along and glare 
From his c...Read more of this...
by Marvell, Andrew

The Church On Comiaken Hill

...empty as a chapel
roofless in a storm. Greek temples seem
the same as forty centuries ago.
If we used one corner for a urinal,
he wouldn't swear we hadn't worshipped here.

The chickens cringe. Rain sprays chaos where
the altar and the stained glass would have gone
had Indians not eaten tribal cows
one hungry fall. Despite the chant,
salmon hadn't come. The first mass
and a phone line cursed the river.
If rain had rhythm, it would not be Latin.

Children do not wave as we dr...Read more of this...
by Hugo, Richard

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