Get Your Premium Membership

Best Famous Vantage Point Poems

Here is a collection of the all-time best famous Vantage Point poems. This is a select list of the best famous Vantage Point poetry. Reading, writing, and enjoying famous Vantage Point poetry (as well as classical and contemporary poems) is a great past time. These top poems are the best examples of vantage point poems.

Search and read the best famous Vantage Point poems, articles about Vantage Point poems, poetry blogs, or anything else Vantage Point poem related using the PoetrySoup search engine at the top of the page.

See Also:
Written by Robert Frost | Create an image from this poem

The Vantage Point

 If tired of trees I seek again mankind,
Well I know where to hie me--in the dawn,
To a slope where the cattle keep the lawn.
There amid lolling juniper reclined,
Myself unseen, I see in white defined
Far off the homes of men, and farther still,
The graves of men on an opposing hill,
Living or dead, whichever are to mind.

And if by noon I have too much of these,
I have but to turn on my arm, and lo,
The sun-burned hillside sets my face aglow,
My breathing shakes the bluet like a breeze,
I smell the earth, I smell the bruisèd plant,
I look into the crater of the ant.


Written by Rg Gregory | Create an image from this poem

the plane and the blackbird

 a cold bright sun
two days to christmas
a first-quarter moon
at a good vantage-point

a small white coffin
driven slowly uphill
from the cemetery gate
to the minimal grave

fifty people attending
unexpected collection
of nettle-stung hearts 
at a barely-lived dying

a shuffling past yews
thoughts finding rhythm
a lightness that bred
from a silent aceptance

a red-arrowed plane
in single formation
scissored the sky's blue
above the procession

sagittarian arrow
a sizzling of fire
an unconscious dipping
of wings in salute

to a baby whose burning
from birth to departing
took thirteen fast days
from rain into sunshine

till almost the hilltop
the hole with its mound
a circle of people
shared its raw hollow

no vicar no service
a speaking of poems
cotoneaster sprigs
dropped into the grave

the red plane returned
cut its own circle
honoured the sunlight
and passed by the moon

from a treetop nearby
a sharp-singing blackbird
trilled its objective
gold-beaked lullay

the grave was filled in
the high hill deserted
and down in the valley
a rare christmas came

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry