Famous Forking Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Forking poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous forking poems. These examples illustrate what a famous forking poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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by
McGonagall, William Topaz
...lf a mile above Newhall the River Esk is seen,
Which sparkles like crystal in the sun's sheen;
And on the Esk there's a forking ridge forming a linn
Betwixt two birch trees, which makes a noisy din.
And on a rocky protuberance close by is Mary Stuart's bower
Where Scotland's ill-starred Queen spent many an hour,
Which is composed of turf and a nice round seat
Commanding a full view of the linn- the sight is quite a treat.
Then there's Habbie's Howe, where the beau...Read more of this...
by
Bosselaar, Laure-Anne
...th on smokeless
smoke-stacks, not even a trash can
to send rumbling through the streets.
And that lightning bolt, forking itself
to death, to hit
nothing — what a waste.
What if I hadn’t been here, lost too,
four in the morning, driving around
in a jean-shirt over my night-gown,
reciting Baudelaire aloud —
like an idiot ¬— unable to sleep,
scared to death by my longing for it,
death, so early in the morning, driving
until the longing runs on empty?
The win...Read more of this...
by
Rilke, Rainer Maria
....
In the beginning was the secret brain.
The brain was celled and soldered in the thought
Before the pitch was forking to a sun;
Before the veins were shaking in their sieve,
Blood shot and scattered to the winds of light
The ribbed original of love....Read more of this...
by
Sexton, Anne
...night here.
It was the strangled cold of November;
even the stars were strapped in the sky
and that moon too bright
forking through the bars to stick me
with a singing in the head.
I have forgotten all the rest.
They lock me in this chair at eight a.m.
and there are no signs to tell the way,
just the radio beating to itself
and the song that remembers
more than I. Oh, la la la,
this music swims back to me.
The night I came I danced a circle
and wa...Read more of this...
by
Gregory, Rg
...ie maisie
i know the way so there
if you'll just stop talking
and keep on walking
before anyone knows
the track will be forking
and we'll almost be home tonight
you're going too fast for me timothy timothy
you're going too fast so there
my shoes are leaking
and my old heart's creaking
the devil may know
and he's not speaking
if we'll ever find home tonight
i'm a little bit hazy maisie maisie
i'm a little bit hazy here
the snowstorm is blinding
the track is too winding.....Read more of this...
by
Collins, Billy
...e the three large volumes you envisioned.
Survivors would have us believe in a brilliance
here, some bolt of truth forking across the water,
an ultimate Light before all the lights go out,
dawning on you with all its megalithic tonnage.
But if something does flash before your eyes
as you go under, it will probably be a fish,
a quick blur of curved silver darting away,
having nothing to do with your life or your death.
The tide will take you, or the lake will acc...Read more of this...
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