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Famous Constructing Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Gregory, Rg
...reading popa
   i let fly
   too many words

   i bang away
   at the seed
   but can’t break it

   hurt i turn to
   constructing
   castles with cards

   if you can’t split
   the atom
   man stop writing...Read more of this...



by Sexton, Anne
...make me smile. 
You dig a hole 
and come out with a sunburn. 
If someone hands you a glass of water 
you start constructing a sailboat. 
If someone hands you a candy wrapper, 
you take it to the book binder. 
Pocketa-pocketa. 

Once upon a time Ms. Dog was sixty-six. 
She had white hair and wrinkles deep as splinters. 
her portrait was nailed up like Christ 
and she said of it: 
That's when I was forty-two, 
down in Rockport with a hat on for ...Read more of this...

by Kipling, Rudyard
...hame; from his ridgepole-shrine he came,
 And he told me in a vision of the night: --
"There are nine and sixty ways of constructing tribal lays,
 "And every single one of them is right!"

 . . . . . . .

Then the silence closed upon me till They put new clothing on me
 Of whiter, weaker fresh and bone more frail; .
And I stepped beneath Time's finger, once again a tribal singer,
 And a minor poet certified by Traill!

Still they skirmish to an...Read more of this...

by Whitman, Walt
...es; 
Who believes not only in our globe, with its sun and moon, but in other globes, with their
 suns
 and moons; 
Who, constructing the house of himself or herself, not for a day, but for all time, sees
 races,
 eras, dates, generations,
The past, the future, dwelling there, like space, inseparable together....Read more of this...

by Scannell, Vernon
...d
And a vital piece mislaid
The machine is quite valueless,
The workers will not be paid.

It is just the same when constructing a sentence
But here we must be very careful
And lay stress on the extreme importance
Of defining our terms: nothing is as simple
As it seems at first regard.
"Sentence" might well mean to you
The amorous rope or twelve years" hard.

No, by "sentence" we mean, quite simply, words
Put together like the parts of a machine.
Now remember ...Read more of this...



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