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Famous Cinched Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Amichai, Yehuda
...thoughts and my dresser drawers,
moves feelings around like furniture
into a new arrangement.
A woman whose body is cinched at the waist and firmly divided
into upper and lower,
with weather-forecast eyes
of shatterproof glass.
Even her cries of passion follow a certain order,
one after the other:
tame dove, then wild dove,
then peacock, wounded peacock, peacock, peacock,
the wild dove, tame dove, dove dove
thrush, thrush, thrush.

A precise woman: on the bedroom ...Read more of this...



by Hudgins, Andrew
...My father cinched the rope,
a noose around my waist,
and lowered me into
the darkness. I could taste

my fear. It tasted first
of dark, then earth, then rot.
I swung and struck my head
and at that moment got

another then: then blood,
which spiked my mouth with iron.
Hand over hand, my father
dropped me from then to then:

then water. Then wet fur,...Read more of this...

by Haxton, Brooks
...Speak,
Isaiah. Sing. I was a scholar as a boy:
I cut the neck and arm holes into the burlap,
pulled it on, and cinched it with a hank of rope:
what I have done from then till now is itch....Read more of this...

by Service, Robert William
...ift came the Big Cold, and opal and gold the lights of the witches arose;
The frost-tyrant clinched, and the valley was cinched by the stark and cadaverous snows.
The trees were like lace where the star-beams could chase, each leaf was a jewel agleam.
The soft white hush lapped the Northland and wrapped us round in a crystalline dream;
So still I could hear quite loud in my ear the swish of the pinions of time;
So bright I could see, as plain as could be, the wings of...Read more of this...

by Service, Robert William
...Then back to brutish labour once again.
And things will go on so until one day I shall know
 That Death has got me cinched beyond a doubt;
Then I'll crawl away from sight, and morosely in the night
 My weary, wasted life will peter out.

Then the boys will gather round, and they'll launch me in the ground,
 And pile the stones the timber wolf to foil;
And the moaning pine will wave overhead a nameless grave,
 Where the black snake in the sunshine loves to coil.
A...Read more of this...



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