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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by
Tebb, Barry
...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...Read more of this...
by
Williams, C K
...ble
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
Strand, Mark
...od 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...
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