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Famous Bio Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Lux, Thomas
...As you descend, slowly, falling faster past
you this snow,
ghostly, some flakes bio-
luminescent (you plunge,
and this lit snow doesn't land
at your feet but keeps falling below
you): single-cell-plant chains, shreds
of zooplankton's mucus food traps,
fish fecal pellets, radioactive fallouts,
sand grains, pollen....And inside
these jagged falling islands
live more microlives,
which feed creatures
on the way down
and all ...Read more of this...



by Brodsky, Joseph
...That's why Urania's older sister Clio! 
in daylight or with the soot-rich lantern,
you see the globe's pate free of any bio,
you see she hides nothing, unlike the latter. 
There they are, blueberry-laden forests,
rivers where the folk with bare hands catch sturgeon
or the towns in whose soggy phone books
you are starring no longer; father eastward surge on
brown mountain ranges; wild mares carousing
in tall sedge; the cheeckbones get yellower
as they turn numerous. An...Read more of this...

by Brodsky, Joseph
...hat's why Urania's older sister Clio!
in daylight or with the soot-rich lantern 
you see the globe's pate free of any bio 
you see she hides nothing unlike the latter.
There they are blueberry-laden forests 
rivers where the folk with bare hands catch sturgeon
or the towns in whose soggy phone books
you are starring no longer; father eastward surge on
brown mountain ranges; wild mares carousing
in tall sedge; the cheeckbones get blueer
as they turn numerous....Read more of this...

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