Famous Bone Dry Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Dream Barker

by Jean Valentine
 We met for supper in your flat-bottomed boat. 
I got there first: in a white dress: I remember
Wondering if you'd come. Then you shot over the bank, 
A Virgilian ****** Jim, and poled us off
To a little sea-food barker's cave you knew.

What'll you have? you said. Eels hung down, 
Bamboozled claws hung up from the crackling weeds. 
The light...Read more of this...

It Is A Spring Afternoon

by Anne Sexton
 Everything here is yellow and green.
Listen to its throat, its earthskin,
the bone dry voices of the peepers
as they throb like advertisements.
The small animals of the woods
are carrying their deathmasks
into a narrow winter cave.
The scarecrow has plucked out
his two eyes like diamonds
and walked into the village.
The general and the postman
have taken off their packs.
This has all happened before
but nothing here...Read more of this...

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