Famous Downwardness Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Downwardness poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous downwardness poems. These examples illustrate what a famous downwardness poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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...locking the painful straight
seems to brush aside
all snags disrupting its ambition
to be sea - certain from its source
downwardness is good - legs don’t have
that gift (being boned with doubt)
rivers in their waywardness
become a rattling cage of tigers
when the storm god snarls
legs are happy then
to have hard ground to run away on
legs and rivers you could say
should show compassion for each other
as if legs themselves aren’t rivers
when (from hip to toe) the energy ...Read more of this...
by
Gregory, Rg
...s it
Hang motionless in dying vision before
It knows it will accept the mortal limit,
And swing into the great circular downwardness that will restore
The breath of earth?Of rock?Of rot?Of other such
Items, and the darkness of whatever dream we clutch?...Read more of this...
by
Warren, Robert Penn
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