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Famous Zipped Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Murray, Les
...out in public spaces 
accompanying everything, the selections 
of sex and war, the rejections. 
To jeans-wearers in zipped sporrans 
it transmits an ideal body 
continuously as theirs age. Warrens 
of plastic tiles and mesh throats 
dispense this aural money 
this sleek accountancy of notes 
deep feeling adrift from its feelers 
thought that means everything at once 
like a shrugging of cream shoulders 
like paintings hung on park mesh 
sonore doom soneer illy chesh 
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by Brautigan, Richard
...hin layer of 6 oz. water resistant and mildew resistant DRY

FINISH green AMERIFLEX poplin.

 Mr. Norris un-zipped his sleeping bag and went outside

with a gigantic hound-like flashlight. He saw the body bring-

ers walking down the path toward the creek.

 "Hey, you guys !" Mr. Norris shouted. "Come back here.

You forgot something. "

 "What do you mean?" one of them said. They both looked

very sheepish, caught in the teeth of the f...Read more of this...

by Service, Robert William
...me another bullet on its 'orrible mission of death;
On through the night it cavorted, seekin' its 'aven of rest,
And it zipped through a crack in the sandbags, and it wolloped me bang on the breast.

Was I killed, do you ask? Oh no, boys. Why am I sittin' 'ere
Gazin' with mournful vision at a mug long empty of beer?
With a throat as dry as a -- oh, thanky! I don't much mind if I do.
Beer with a dash of 'ollands, that's my particular brew.

Yes, that was a terr...Read more of this...

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