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Famous Downwind Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...nd set forth

In cloth caps and Sunday suits

Fresh from their graves amidst

A grove of trees in Chapeltown

Where the downwind strokes the

Backs of leaves.

 Margaret, I have

Carved your image in mother-of-pearl

Beauty like no other born.



 Memory, mother

Of the Muse, make me sing.





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Arthur Pickersgill, I remember

The night of your dying, Auntie

Nellie came crying to our door

To beg a sheet to lay you out

A night of storms and the unfathomable

Darkness o...Read more of this...
by Tebb, Barry



...ssemble 
the disintegrating drains.
After half a night of listening to the news, wondering how to know a 
hundred miles downwind
if and when to make a run for it and where, then a coming bolt awake 
at seven
when the roofers we've been waiting for since winter sent their ladders 
shrieking up our wall,
we still know less than nothing: the utility company continues making 
little of the accident,
the slick federal spokesmen still have their evasions in some semblance 
of order...Read more of this...
by Williams, C K
...oy.

What good does it do? The hours have done their job.
I say my own name. I say goodbye.
The words follow each other downwind.
I love my wife but send her away.

My parents rise out of their thrones
into the milky rooms of clouds. How can I sing?
Time tells me what I am. I change and I am the same.
I empty myself of my life and my life remains....Read more of this...
by Strand, Mark

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