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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