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Famous Culvert Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Brautigan, Richard
...
of a dinosaur. Tom Martin Creek was a small creek with cold,

clear water and poured out of a canyon and through a culvert

 under the highway and then into the Klamath.

 I dropped a fly in a small pool just below where the creek

flowed out of the culvert and took a nine-inch trout. It was

a good-looking fish and fought all over the top of the pool.

 Even though the creek was very small and poured out of a

steep brushy canyon filled with poison oak, I de...Read more of this...



by Roethke, Theodore
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At the field's end, in the corner missed by the mower,
Where the turf drops off into a grass-hidden culvert,
Haunt of the cat-bird, nesting-place of the field-mouse,
Not too far away from the ever-changing flower-dump,
Among the tin cans, tires, rusted pipes, broken machinery, --
One learned of the eternal;
And in the shrunken face of a dead rat, eaten by rain and ground-beetles
(I found in lying among the rubble of an old coal bin)
And the tom-cat, caught...Read more of this...

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