Famous Backwater Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Backwater poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous backwater poems. These examples illustrate what a famous backwater poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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...here wasn't a pond of crocodiles at all.
And they hadn't moved. They couldn't move. They
Lived in the small, fenced-off backwater
Of a canal. I'd never seen them alive. They
Were in still photographs taken on the Ivory Coast.
I saw them only once in a studio when
I was a child in a city I once loved.
I was afraid until our neighbor, a photographer,
Explained it all to me, explained how far
Away they were, how harmless; how they were praised
In rituals as "powers." But they ha...Read more of this...
by
Levis, Larry
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