Famous Alphabets Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Alphabets poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous alphabets poems. These examples illustrate what a famous alphabets poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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by
Paz, Octavio
...
I fall without falling.
My hands are cold,
my feet cold –
but the alphabets are burning, burning.
Space
makes and unmakes itself.
The night insists,
the night touches my forehead,
touches my thoughts.
What does it want?...Read more of this...
by
Kinnell, Galway
...ithering
steam.
Yes,
you cling because
I, like you, only sooner
than you, will go down
the path of vanished alphabets,
the roadlessness
to the other side of the darkness,
your arms
like the shoes left behind,
like the adjectives in the halting speech
of old men,
which once could call up the lost nouns.
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And you yourself,
some impossible Tuesday
in the year Two Thousand and Nine, will walk out
among the black stones
of the field, in the rain...Read more of this...
by
Collins, Billy
...als without speaking.
Our collars were high and our hats were extremely soft.
We would surprise each other with alphabets made of twigs.
It was a wonderful time to be alive, or even dead.
I am very fond of the period between 1815 and 1821.
Europe trembled while we sat still for our portraits.
And I would love to return to 1901 if only for a moment,
time enough to wind up a music box and do a few dance steps,
or shoot me back to 1922 or 1941, or at lea...Read more of this...
by
Moody, William Vaughn
...e over-scrawled
With broideries--sea-shapes and flying things,
Fan-trees and dwarfed nodosities of pine,
Mixed with old alphabets, and faded lore
Fallen from ecstatic mouths before the Flood,
Or gathered by the daughters when they walked
Eastward in Eden with the Sons of God
Whom love and the deep moon made garrulous
Between the carven tusks his trunk hung dead;
Blind as the eyes of pearl in Buddha's brow
His beaded eyes stared thwart upon the road;
And feebler than the dotin...Read more of this...
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