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

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Memorial Day For The War Dead

by Amichai, Yehuda

...appiness is hiding.

Memorial day. Bitter salt is dressed up
as a little girl with flowers.
The streets are cordoned off with ropes,
for the marching together of the living and the dead.
Children with a grief not their own march slowly,
like stepping over broken glass.

The flautist's mouth will stay like that for many days.
A dead soldier swims above little heads
with the swimming movements of the dead,
with the ancient error the dead have
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