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Famous Darknesses Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...ade of infinite mother-of-pearl.

 I am nothing but the empty net which has gone on ahead
 of human eyes, dead in those darknesses,
 of fingers accustomed to the triangle, longitudes
 on the timid globe of an orange.

 I walked around as you do, investigating
 the endless star,
 and in my net, during the night, I woke up naked,
 the only thing caught, a fish trapped inside the wind....Read more of this...
by Neruda, Pablo



...ps in gleaming triumph round the world;
And before its jewelled lances all the shadows of the night
 Back in to abysmal darknesses are hurled.

Leap to life again, my lovers! ye must toil and never tire;
 The day of daring, doing, brightens clear,
When the bed of spicy cedar and the jovial camp-fire
 Must only be a memory of cheer.
There is hope and golden promise in the vast portentous dawn;
 There is glamour in the glad, effluent sky:
Go and leave me; I will dream of you an...Read more of this...
by Service, Robert William
...Richard Chessick, John Gedo, James Grotstein and Vamik Voltan



What darknesses have you lit up for me

What depths of infinite space plumbed

With your finely honed probes

What days of unending distress lightened 

With your wisdom, skills and jouissance?

Conquistadores of the unconscious

For three decades how often have I come to you

And from your teachings gathered the manna

Of meaning eluding me alone in my northern ...Read more of this...
by Tebb, Barry
...Deep and unreachable in their darknesses, 
capriciously childish and tender
when we write to each other,
while we talk about one of us
who is not around.

I grew up with some of them,
others, who I met as grown-up people,
I could unerringly pick out in their photo albums 
on group pictures of their school classes. 
They've always been like that.

They remember every detail I'...Read more of this...
by Skenderija, Sasha

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