Famous Aboveground Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Aboveground poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous aboveground poems. These examples illustrate what a famous aboveground poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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by
Bishop, Elizabeth
...s of mine.
With blue sugar bags on their heads,
carrying your lunch,
your children scuttle by me
like little moles aboveground,
or even crouch behind bushes
as if I were out to shoot them!
—Impossible to make friends,
though each will grab at once
for an orange or a piece of candy.
Twined in wisps of fog,
I see you all up there
along with Formoso, the donkey,
who brays like a pump gone dry,
then suddenly stops.
—All just standing, staring
off into fog and space....Read more of this...
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