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Best Famous Hors Poems

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Written by Anne Sexton | Create an image from this poem

The Ambition Bird

 So it has come to this
insomnia at 3:15 A.
M.
, the clock tolling its engine like a frog following a sundial yet having an electric seizure at the quarter hour.
The business of words keeps me awake.
I am drinking cocoa, that warm brown mama.
I would like a simple life yet all night I am laying poems away in a long box.
It is my immortality box, my lay-away plan, my coffin.
All night dark wings flopping in my heart.
Each an ambition bird.
The bird wants to be dropped from a high place like Tallahatchie Bridge.
He wants to light a kitchen match and immolate himself.
He wants to fly into the hand of Michelangelo anc dome out painted on a ceiling.
He wants to pierce the hornet's nest and come out with a long godhead.
He wants to take bread and wine and bring forth a man happily floating in the Caribbean.
He wants to be pressed out like a key so he can unlock the Magi.
He wants to take leave among strangers passing out bits of his heart like hors d'oeuvres.
He wants to die changing his clothes and bolt for the sun like a diamond.
He wants, I want.
Dear God, wouldn't it be good enough to just drink cocoa? I must get a new bird and a new immortality box.
There is folly enough inside this one.


Written by Rudyard Kipling | Create an image from this poem

Merrow Down

 There runs a road by Merrow Down--
 A grassy track to-day it is--
An hour out Guildford town,
 Above the river Wey it is.
Here, when they heard the hors-bells ring, The ancient Britons dressed and rode To which the dark Phoenicians bring Their goods along the Western Road.
Yes, here, or hereabouts, they met To hold their racial talks and such-- To barter beads for Whitby jet, And tin for gay shell torques and such.
But long ago before that time (When bison used to roam on it) Did Taffy and her Daddy climb That Down, and had their home on it.
Then beavers built in Broadstonebrook And made a swamp where Bramley stands; And bears from Shere would come and look For Taffimai where Shamley stands.
The Wey, that Taffy called Wagai, Was more than six times bigger then; And all the Tribe of Tegumai They cut a noble figure then! II Of all the Tribe of Tegumai Who cut that figure, none remain,-- On Merrow Down the cuckoos cry-- The silence and the sun remain.
But as the faithful years return And hearts unwounded sing again, Comes Taffy dancing through the fern To lead the Surrey spring again.
Her brows are bound with bracken-fronds, And golden elf-locks fly above; Her eyes are bright as diamonds And bluer than the sky above.
In moccasins and deer-skin cloak, Unfearing, free and fair she flits, And lights her little damp-wood smoke To show her Daddy where she flits.
For far--oh, very far behind, So far she cannot call to him, Comes Tegumai alone to find The daughter that was all to him!
Written by Andre Breton | Create an image from this poem

Le Verbe ?tre

 Je connais le d?sespoir dans ses grandes lignes.
Le d?sespoir n'a pas d'ailes, il ne se tient pas n?cessairement ? une table desservie sur une terrasse, le soir, au bord de la mer.
C'est le d?sespoir et ce n'est pas le retour d'une quantit? de petits faits comme des graines qui quittent ? la nuit tombante un sillon pour un autre.
Ce n'est pas la mousse sur une pierre ou le verre ? boire.
C'est un bateau cribl? de neige, si vous voulez, comme les oiseaux qui tombent et leur sang n'a pas la moindre ?paisseur.
Je connais le d?sespoir dans ses grandes lignes.
Une forme tr?s petite, d?limit?e par un bijou de cheveux.
C'est le d?sespoir.
Un collier de perles pour lequel on ne saurait trouver de fermoir et dont l'existence ne tient pas m?me ? un fil, voil? le d?sespoir.
Le reste, nous n'en parlons pas.
Nous n'avons pas fini de des?sp?rer, si nous commen?ons.
Moi je d?sesp?re de l'abat-jour vers quatre heures, je d?sesp?re de l'?ventail vers minuit, je d?sesp?re de la cigarette des condamn?s.
Je connais le d?sespoir dans ses grandes lignes.
Le d?sespoir n'a pas de coeur, la main reste toujours au d?sespoir hors d'haleine, au d?sespoir dont les glaces ne nous disent jamais s'il est mort.
Je vis de ce d?sespoir qui m'enchante.
J'aime cette mouche bleue qui vole dans le ciel ? l'heure o? les ?toiles chantonnent.
Je connais dans ses grandes lignes le d?sespoir aux longs ?tonnements gr?les, le d?sespoir de la fiert?, le d?sespoir de la col?re.
Je me l?ve chaque jour comme tout le monde et je d?tends les bras sur un papier ? fleurs, je ne me souviens de rien, et c'est toujours avec d?sespoir que je d?couvre les beaux arbres d?racin?s de la nuit.
L'air de la chambre est beau comme des baguettes de tambour.
Il fait un temps de temps.
Je connais le d?sespoir dans ses grandes lignes.
C'est comme le vent du rideau qui me tend la perche.
A-t-on id?e d'un d?sespoir pareil! Au feu! Ah! ils vont encore venir.
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Et les annonces de journal, et les r?clames lumineuses le long du canal.
Tas de sable, esp?ce de tas de sable! Dans ses grandes lignes le d?sespoir n'a pas d'importance.
C'est une corv?e d'arbres qui va encore faire une for?t, c'est une corv?e d'?toiles qui va encore faire un jour de moins, c'est une corv?e de jours de moins qui va encore faire ma vie.

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