Famous Grassland Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Grassland poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous grassland poems. These examples illustrate what a famous grassland poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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...lonnades of cosmos,
snapdragon, nasturtium, bloodsilk red poppies,
in my grandmother's garden: a prairie childhood,
the grassland shorn, overlaid with a grid,
unsealed, furrowed, harrowed and sown with immigrant grasses,
their massive corduroy, their wavering feltings embroidered
here and there by the scarlet shoulder patch of cannas
on a courthouse lawn, by a love knot, a cross stitch
of living matter, sown and tended by women,
nurturers everywhere of the strange and wonderf...Read more of this...
by
Clampitt, Amy
...t when the first light
streaked, joyous, out of the unalterable street...
Then, tuned to the immanent choir of the grassland,
untangling from the sea -
Then, stripped to the last detail, from her sinewed skin,
disheveled in the light, one aria from the immaculate concertina -
before her rebirth
a tongue licked through the core of my soul
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Strange men in dark garments
riding in slow, weary steps,
paces of a far and distant journey -
in measured ges...Read more of this...
by
Nwakanma, Obi
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