Famous Cliché Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Cliché poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous cliché poems. These examples illustrate what a famous cliché poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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by
Skillman, Judith
...in the soles of their feet,
the fish knifing away.
Under the currents
every death moves in time
towards them,
each cliché is soothed
into language
as if there were
no way to limit
Paradise, other than
this that has already happened....Read more of this...
by
Jong, Erica
...> . .
There is no more poetry
to be written
of these things.
The rainbow's sudden revelation--
behold!
The cliché is true!
What can one say
but that?
So too
with you, little heart,
little miracle,
but you are
no less miracle
for being ordinary....Read more of this...
by
Dove, Rita
...'s business?" I asked, and hazarded
a motherly smile to keep from crying out:
Are you content to conduct your life
as a cliché and, what's worse,
an anachronism, the brooding artist's demimonde?
Near the rue Princesse they had opened
a gallery cum souvenir shop which featured
fuzzy off-color Monets next to his acrylics, no doubt,
plus beared African drums and the occasional miniature
gargoyle from Notre Dame the Great Artist had
carved at breakfast with a pocket knife....Read more of this...
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