Famous Cabalistic Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Neighbors

...the house:
Church of the Living God
And Rescue Home for Orphan Children.

From a Greek coffee house
Across the street
A cabalistic jargon
Jabbers back.
 And men at tables
 Spill Peloponnesian syllables
 And speak of shovels for street work.
 And the new embankments of the Erie Railroad
 At Painted Post, Horse’s Head, Salamanca....Read more of this...
by Sandburg, Carl


Pencils

...wind goes
 end a story.

These eager pencils
come to a stop
.. only .. when the stars high over
come to a stop.

Out of cabalistic to-morrows
come cryptic babies calling life
a strong and a lovely thing.
I have seen neither these
nor the stars high over
come to a stop.
Neither these nor the sea horses
running with the clocks of the moon.
Nor even a shooting star
snatching a pencil of fire
writing a curve of gold and white.
Like you .. I counted the shooting stars of a winter
...Read more of this...
by Sandburg, Carl

The Andante of Snakes

...ped heads, flattened as by a heel, 
Erect to suck the sunlight from the day, 
And stealthily and gradually reveal 

Dim cabalistic signs of spots and rings 
Among their folds of faded tapestry; 
Then these fat, foul, unbreathing, moving things 
Droop back to stagnant immobility....Read more of this...
by Symons, Arthur

The Blue Swallows

...eeing the swallows’ tails as nibs 
Dipped in invisible ink, writing… 

Poor mind, what would you have them write? 
Some cabalistic history 
Whose authorship you might ascribe 
To God? to Nature? Ah, poor ghost, 
You’ve capitalized your Self enough. 
That villainous William of Occam 
Cut out the feet from under that dream 
Some seven centuries ago. 
It’s taken that long for the mind 
To waken, yawn and stretch, to see 
With opened eyes emptied of speech 
The real world where t...Read more of this...
by Nemerov, Howard

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