Famous Biological Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Biological poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous biological poems. These examples illustrate what a famous biological poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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by
Bernadette Geyer
And so I look back
still thinking of her
with painful heart,
this clench of inner flesh.
—Kakinomoto Hitomaro
from Manyoshu
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Praise the irritant, that genesis,
implanted within the soft
and malleable animal that bore you.
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Your brethren strung around my neck,
dangling from my earlobes.
The imperfections the jeweler slights, I praise.
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Artifact of a biological process,
why do we expect
symmetry from a grain of sand?
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Praise the oblong beauty
of...Read more of this...
by
Anne Sexton
Take away your knowledge, Doktor.
It doesn't butter me up.
You say my heart is sick unto.
You ought to have more respect!
you with the goo on the suction cup.
You with your wires and electrodes
fastened at my ankle and wrist,
sucking up the biological breast.
You with your zigzag machine
playing like the stock market up and down.
Give me the Phi Beta key you always...Read more of this...
by
Craig Raine
So how is life with your new bloke?
Simpler, I bet. Just one stroke
of his quivering oar and the skin
of the Thames goes into a spin,
eh? How is life with an oarsman? Better?
More in--out? Athletic? Wetter?
When you hear the moan of the rowlocks,
do you urge him on like a cox?
Tell me, is he bright enough to find
that memo-pad you call...Read more of this...
by
Ogden Nash
A girl whose cheeks are covered with paint
Has an advantage with me over one whose ain't....Read more of this...
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