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Famous Averting Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...head on his paws
by the egg-crate bookcase filled up with thin volumes of Plato, & Buddha.

Sat by his side every night averting my eyes from his hungry motheaten
 face
stopped eating myself he got weaker and roared at night while I had 
 nightmares
Eaten by lion in bookstore on Cosmic Campus, a lion myself starved by
 Professor Kandisky, dying in a lion's flophouse circus,
I woke up mornings the lion still added dying on the floor--'Terrible
 Presence!'I cried'Eat me or die!...Read more of this...
by Ginsberg, Allen



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