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Famous Directive Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Padel, Ruth
...tween nightmares all the time.
My first tour, we hissed into an encampment 
early afternoon, round two. The new directive,
polio. Inoculating kids. It took a while.
As we left, this old man came up, pulled on our
back-lag jeep-hoods, yacking. We went back.
They'd come behind us, hacked off
all the inoculated arms. There they were 
in a pile, a pile of little arms.

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