Famous Each Month Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Each Month poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous each month poems. These examples illustrate what a famous each month poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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by
Untermeyer, Louis
...bling to my old mother. "What!" he cried,
"Is the old lady of the Dammthor still alive?
And do you write her still?" "Each month or so."
"And is she not unhappy then, to find
How wretched you must be?" "How can she know?
You see," I laughed, "she thinks I am as well
As when she saw me last. She is too blind
To read the papers—some one else must tell
What's in my letters, merely signed by me.
Thus she is happy. For the rest—
That any son should be as sick as I,
No m...Read more of this...
by
Carver, Raymond
...money to each of his surviving
family members. The ones who already expect a little
something in the mail first of each month.
Every time they write they tell him
they're coming up short. He counts heads on his fingers
and finds they're all survivng. So what
if he'd rather be remembered in the dreams of strangers?
He raises his eyes to the skylights where rain
hammers on. After a while --
who knows how long? -- his eyes ask
that they be closed. And he...Read more of this...
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