Famous Cataclysmic Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Cataclysmic poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous cataclysmic poems. These examples illustrate what a famous cataclysmic poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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by
Nandy, Pritish
...1
Come, let us pretend this is a ritual. This hand
in your hair, your tongue seeking mine: this
cataclysmic despair. Let us pretend tonight that
you are mine. Forever. For when daybreak returns, we
shall realise once more that forever means an
empty room, a tired night swirling into nowhere,
when I shore up to your tattered skyline.
2
At midnight I move in on strangers, for the caress
or the kill. I have come to terms with shadows,
I have...Read more of this...
by
Walcott, Derek
...
the bubbles like ideas which he could not break:
Jamaica was captured by Penn and Venables,
Port Royal perished in a cataclysmic earthquake.
Before the coruscating façades of cathedrals
from Santiago to Caracas, where penitential archbishops
washed the feet of paupers (a parenthetical moment
that made the Caribbean a baptismal font,
turned butterflies to stone, and whitened like doves
the buzzards circling municipal garbage),
the Caribbean was borne like an el...Read more of this...
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